DOES ANYBODY KNOW

[oldguyinTX]

What the Spyder icon that appeared in the trip meter box on my center screen display indicates? It literally looks like a Spyder as if you were looking down on it from above. It would flash on for about 3-4 seconds, then off for 3-4 seconds and the trip meter would reappear. Kept doing it over and over. I've seen other icons there, but never this one. I spoke to the technician at my dealer, and he has never seen it either, nor could he find any about it information on BossWeb, so he was really stumped and said "this is gonna drive me nuts until I find out what it is." Any clues?

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

What the Spyder icon that appeared in the trip meter box on my center screen display indicates? It literally looks like a Spyder as if you were looking down on it from above. It would flash on for about 3-4 seconds, then off for 3-4 seconds and the trip meter would reappear. Kept doing it over and over. I've seen other icons there, but never this one. I spoke to the technician at my dealer, and he has never seen it either, nor could he find any about it information on BossWeb, so he was really stumped and said "this is gonna drive me nuts until I find out what it is." Any clues?

Pretty sure it's a VSS fault. The trip meter box is used to display fault icons. First thing I would check is make sure the passenger seat sensor switch is plugged in. Do you by chance have some kind of load on the pax seat that may be bouncing up and down. Check for error codes the next time you see it. There are a lot of components with input to the VSS and any one of them could be bad, like maybe a speed sensor on one of the wheels.

Do you see a similar icon on the tachometer screen?

 

[oldguyinTX]

Check Engine light was on the tach, nothing else. My wife was on the passenger seat. The code I pulled up was P0902, Transmission Control Module. Before the Spyder icon showed up, there was an exclamation point inside a circle that looks like a gear and "Check Transmission" on the main screen. The tech thinks-over the phone anyway- that it's either a shifter solenoid or a loose ground. It never ends.

 

[stevencovert]

998cc model?

Check Engine light was on the tach, nothing else. My wife was on the passenger seat. The code I pulled up was P0902, Transmission Control Module. Before the Spyder icon showed up, there was an exclamation point inside a circle that looks like a gear and "Check Transmission" on the main screen. The tech thinks-over the phone anyway- that it's either a shifter solenoid or a loose ground. It never ends.

I got that same error, but along with shifting problems. Any weirdness like getting stuck in gear? Shifting from 3rd to 4th and winding up in Neutral? The gearbox Position Sensor is a poorly made sensor that likes to fail. I have a thread or two on this. Replaced mine myself, takes time but not too awful.

 

[oldguyinTX]

I got that same error, but along with shifting problems. Any weirdness like getting stuck in gear? Shifting from 3rd to 4th and winding up in Neutral? The gearbox Position Sensor is a poorly made sensor that likes to fail. I have a thread or two on this. Replaced mine myself, takes time but not too awful.

Yes, 998. Wouldn't shift into neutral or reverse, then magically it would. Upshifting/downshifting worked fine.