Sportshift or lack of!

[V8VTim]

Hi all

I need a bit of help with this one, sportshift " no gear selection possible" message middle of M25 stop start traffic and it puts message up and defaults to neutral. Unable to select anything on paddles or in auto. Happened five times in one hour, nearly died twice on motorway, cars whizzing past on both sides!!!!!

AM dealers can't reproduce the fault, keeping car for a couple more days to use it and try and get fault to reoccur. Any thoughts from you guys, car in hot, slow moving traffic for 1.5 hours many gear changes. Now don't feel I can trust it as I was on my way to a brilliant Palmersport day.

I have posted on this subject before but it only occurred a couple of times in many weeks.

Tim

[HBradley]

Tim,
Have a word with a Mike at Bamford Rose.
Good luck, hope it gets sorted.

[R1CKF]

A very similar problem has happened to me twice and like you i lost all gears and it dumped a load of transmission oil in the road . I was obviously super concerned and feared the worse but it turned out to be just a circlip popping off a high pressure valve on the back of the gearbox. Vehicle was obviously recovered and repaired and have had no problems for three years.
The only difference being is i lost all gears and the car obviously wouldn't reset without the pressure in the system, but i had exactly the same message that you had.
I think there is a recall on this very product at the moment, might be worth checking with your dealer.
I hope that this is all it is.

[chuds285]

Hi
Yes there is a safety recall on this fault if you have a vantage made between July 2010 until August 2012 with ASM 11 the number is RA-07-0022. I have recently got my letter and the car is at the dealer now.

Hope this helps!

Ian.

[V8VTim]

Thanks for your replies guys. It's been diagnosed as NFF. The dealers have road tested over and over and it won't reproduce the fault. They are keeping it for a couple more days but I find myself unable to trust it for long or important journeys. I will contact Mike at BR and gauge his thoughts. It points towards some sort of electrical gremlin.