dsc999

Car is beautiful. This particular example in volcano orange. Car is brutally fast! The owner also had one of the Sapphire blue GT3. I was jealous... Bad iPhone pic below

bronson7

Nice small lineup there.

Alan C.

I hear Microsoft is developing the software for the RS.

kyrocks

That's not volcano orange. Hard to tell from pic but it's McLaren Orange or Tarocco Orange.

CP_DXB

I received my 2015 GT3 5 days ago. On my first drive, with 42 km on the OD, I got this same message. I lost 2nd, 4th and reverse gears. I nursed the car to a side street and turned it off, waited 2 minutes, turned it back on and the fault was gone. Dealer collected the car, but the service guy said no codes were latched. I'm at 500km now and it hasn't happened again. Track day next weekend, we'll see if it comes back.

UAEGT3

CP DXB: I sent you a PM

dsc999

CP DXB...Well, not sure I feel better having company on this one. Hopefully it disappears on your car as it seems to have done on mine !

dancrocker

I just had this same error message on my 2015 Cayman S. I didn't try reverse, but I did lose the even gears. Turned the car off, removed the key, and turned it back on. The car behaved normally after that. I was driving leisurely but in sport mode. Ambient temp was about 55F. About 7500 miles on the odometer. I will take it to the dealer in a few days and post the conclusions.

CP_DXB

Just to follow up, I have over 2000 kms on my car now and I haven't seen the gearbox fault (or any others, for that matter) since the original one.

dancrocker

I took the car to the dealer. An error code was captured. I was told that Porsche engineers know of the issue but don't yet understand what's happening. The dealer said to keep driving the car and to let them know if it happens again. Hopefully, Porsche will figure things out before I see it again.

shapiroeric

Well not to bring up an old thread but I had this fault over the weekend.....lost R and even gears....2015 with 2,000 miles....normal daily driving....pulled over, turned the car off, started it up and back to normal....See no reason to bring to the dealer for a one time issue that's resolved but anyone get any answers?

dancrocker

As far as I know, the issue is not resolved, at least not as of a couple of weeks ago. You might consider letting the dealer know it happened. When it happened on my car, there was some debug info they wanted to collect. Maybe your dealership will want to do the same.

vaderone

I just have the same fault code. Took to dealer and they reprogrammed. The code reappeared and it was stuck in 3rd. Restarted car and ok. Not sure what to do.


Anyone else had a resolution?

Magnetic K

Took the GT3 out for the last run before the winter. Ended up with the same transmission fault. I was able to limp it to the parking lot. Restarted the engine, and the fault spontaneously cleared. Was able to drive it home without any issues. Tried a few restarts, and no recurrence of this fault. (2015 GT3 2300 miles).

Any ideas what is the etiology of this fault?

gristle101

As an electrical engineer, I'd like to share my .02 on these occurrences. These cars are becoming increasingly more electrically intricate, and, therefore, phantom errors are more likely. A fault such as the one mentioned could be due to excess charge building up on a particular chip within one of the car's modules, due to a perfect storm of occurrences that are hard/impossible to diagnose. No amount of R&D or design improvements on behalf of Porsche can prevent these faults from occurring. For comparison, consider the computers we use every day for business and/or pleasure. Even the most top-of-the line smartphones, macs and PCs need to be rebooted once in a while. Higher end Intel processors on the market today have more than 2 billion transistor "switches" functioning in unison. That's a huge opportunity for something to go wrong.

With the amount of tech within cars today, these faults may be inevitable, and might just become more normal than ever.