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[HSCRandy]

F3 Shifting Problems

Hello Fellow Spyder Lovers!
I'll start by saying that I am not good with new technologies, computers, social media, etc. Any idea how many people I am reaching with this communication?
My wife and I both have 2018 F3 LTD SE-6 Spyders. I am in a dilemma on mine that I'm hoping somebody will respond to.....

About 8 times now my Spyder will not shift gears. The first time it got stuck in 1st gear. It simply would not shift into 2nd. I pulled off to the side of the road and tried to figure out what was happening. It didn't throw any codes or warning messages. I shut it down to see if re-starting would do anything. I was able to put it in neutral and reverse. Then it stuck in reverse and I couldn't get it back into 1st gear. I called my son to bring a trailer and figured I would just back it onto the trailer and take it to a dealer. After about 20 minutes I started it up and it ran fine. No more problems for about a week.

The next time I had problems it got stuck in 2nd gear. I could not get it to shift into 3rd gear. Again, pulled to the side of the road, played around with the gears and got it stuck in reverse again. It would not go into 1st gear. I was about 1/2 mile from home. I drove home in reverse. After letting it sit for awhile everything was fine. It shifted fine.

This has happened a handful of times since then. I took it to a local Can AM dealer. It got stuck in 2nd gear on the way to the dealership. I was very fearful that my Spyder would not act up for them so that they could properly diagnose it. This is exactly what happened. Four different test drives (1 of them riding very aggressively). Shifting worked fine. The dealership said that they did some re-learning of the gears with the computer (I don't know what that means) and this probably resolved the problem.

I drove it around on a few "in town" trips and didn't have any problem. I trailered it down to Colorado to do some riding. It worked great the first day. The second day it got stuck in 2nd gear but it only took about a few minutes before it started working again. We went to Silverton and after being parked for awhile I put it into reverse and backed out of the parking stall. It would not shift into 1st gear, nor would it shift into reverse. By turning off the Spyder I could get it into neutral. I tried disconnecting the battery to see if that might possibly re-set something. It didn't help. After about 20 minutes it started working again and it ran fine the 60 miles back to our base camp.

I'm worried about getting stranded. Any ideas what the problem might be or what to do????

Somebody please respond!

Sincerely and Gratefully,
HSCRandy

 

[Peter Aawen]

Hi Randy, welcome to the Forum. :thumbup:

Sadly, you're probably reaching maybe only a dozen people at most with your post above here in this section, cos not too many people visit this Welcome section, and that's why SpyderBOT says:

....Do NOT post support questions here, please post them in the appropriate forum once your account is approved.

Your 'joining processing' won't be complete until your username turns Blue, like SpyderBOT's, and only then will you be able to post out on the more frequented Public Pages of the Forum, but that usually takes less than a day. Seeing as how you've put so much effort into you post above, once your username has turned Blue, I can have a go at moving it out into the F3 Shop Talk sub-forum as a new thread in its own right. I'll send you a PM with a link to that new thread once I've done that, so keep an eye out for a flashing Red 'Inbox' Notification up in the top right corner of the page. But I still can't do that until all your joining processing is complete...

In the meantime, it might pay you to check underneath your F3, pretty much alongside/below the Left Hand frame joiner behind the foot peg/plate - under there is the Reverse Gear Lock-out selector thingie (highly technical term that! ) and that can easily get bent, giving you all sorts of gear selection and 'stuck in/out' of Reverse gear problems. The bracket below & supporting the mechanism is meant to be straight, but it can easily get caught on things and bent out of whack, creating issues like those you describe, so sometimes the sort of gear selection problems you describe can be resolved simply by straightening that bracket/support. Might be worth checking, especially if you can recall dragging the belly of the bike over anything before all this started. :thumbup: Of course, there's a bunch of other things it could also be, like the LH Contol Module (the LH Handgrip!) or maybe the Gear Position Sensor?? :dontknow:

If you've already done that ^^ without success and you're still waiting to hear where I've put your post, it won't hurt you to check out the links in SpyderBOT's post above - lotsa good info in there about your Spyder &/or getting the best from the Forum. hyea:

Hope to see you out there on the more frequented pages of the Forum soon; and with any luck, you'll be getting a more helpful answer to your question. :2thumbs:

 

[Peter Aawen]

After I'd copied your post into its own thread as soon as I was able, I sent you that PM I promised pretty early this morning (my time) Randy, about 18 hours ago now...

But it doesn't look like you've read it, the post above, or even been back to at least check-up & see if anyone ever did reply to your post?! :dontknow: