[Kiwichris]

Hi Team



I was driving the 968 after six months storage. Did the warm up, Fluid checks etc etc and was 10 kms into my drive when the abs light appeared and the speedo stopped working...... Problem 1. After reading the forum I will investigate the relay for the speedo first of all.



I continued to my destination parked the car and after a few hours I started and drove straight home. (total trip 40 kilometers)



As i was driving home I went to manual mode and the transmission would not change gear at all, The shifter was moving freely. as i kept driving i went in and out of the gate to the manual mode a few times to see if it would work but it didn't help or fix the problem. Then the unthinkable happened as i tried again the shifter jammed in bettween the gate and i was stuck in drive. I made it home but the car is in the middle of the driveway as i cant reverse into the garage. And i cannot start the car because It is stuck in gear.



I jacked the car up and it is on stands now but I cannot find any visual clues. Probably not looking in the right places.



I have tried to find as much information as possible before posting however like all questions i wanted to be specific to my symptoms.



Best Regards



Thanks in Advance for any help!

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[banditsc]

Might want to check inside the car also, pull out the center console and see if the shifter is jammed inside the car.

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[flash]

yeah - that shifter assembly is a whole bunch of parts. that would be my first suspect too.

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[Kiwichris]

Thanks. I will get into that side of it today and let you know what i find.



Regards

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[968Syncro]

I am also interested. Not for jammed transmission, but also have the intermittent ABS light and speedo dropping to zero. I started that discussion here so won't put new info on this thread: http://www.968forums.com/topic/13613-bra...-comes-on/. Also have Tiptronic, I am concerned the two are linked somehow. For example, there is "supposedly" a speed sensor on the trans, which feeds into the ABS.



On the stuck shifter, the only thing I can add is my experience. There is a cable from the shifter to the Tiptronic used on the left side, not on the tip side (tip side is just a couple of switches). Mine once had a broken transmission mount which caused some weight on the cable which made it very hard to shift P-N-D-3-2-1. It was still possible, but very tight. See if it is possible to check that cable.

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[968Syncro]

Chris, also I just remembered, there are a couple of locks on the shifter:

1. a cable from the ignition switch to the shift, so the car must be in park to start it (or maybe in neutral, can't recall).

2. a solenoid connected to the brake pedal switch, so the car can be shift from park only when the break is depressed. I think it also controls when the shifter is allowed to move from drive/neutral into reverse or park.



It is possible in your case that these locks somehow got out of sync. I have this vague memory from some years ago that I also couldn't move the shifter; somehow I think I put the key back in the ignition and used a bit more force to the left, almost like that ignition lockout cable was a bit out of adjustment, and then moving the ignition switch tumbler gave it that extra oomph to release something at the shifter. On the other hand since you mention possible correlation to brake problems, perhaps the signal from the brake pedal isn't getting to the lockout that prevents shifting unless the foot is on the brake.

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[Kiwichris]

Hi Team



Thankyou so much for the information. I have sorted the issue as follows



Remove ashtray and screws as indicated

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[Kiwichris]

Remove the shift lever button by unscrewing it.

Remove the shifter knob by lifting it straight up ( some force required )



Then lift consol slightly to access the tags that lock the plastic shift lever cover.

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[Kiwichris]

Ok so the problem was with the shifter mechanism as predicted by 968 forum members above. Thanks

The arrows indicate the area that was actually bent and not engaging the socket indicated by the star.

The Diamond indicates an ongoing issue the was a jammed button that would sometimes spring up into correct position.

This photo is of the straightened unit and the button works freely now.    

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[Kiwichris]

Now i need to sort the abs light and speedo issue.



Regards

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[94SilverCab]

Nice! You should write that up and pdf it.



Jay

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