makeshiftUK
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The thing I feared most happened last night - QP (2010 GT S) lights up like an Xmas tree with my family on board, dashboard reads out something along the lines of 'transmission fault go to dealer' with dash icons/lights I've never seen before. Is the car safe to drive to a specialist in it's current state?
What happened - car was driving normally until I selected manual and 2nd gear, and as I was accelerating through the rev range the car lurches forward and selects 3rd... I immediately reselect auto/Drive and continue on sheepishly. This has happened once before about 3 months ago (also slipping out of 2nd and into 3rd) but as a one-off I thought nothing of it. About 30 mins later whilst stationary at some lights I receive the error message above along with what appears to be a red handbrake warning light, check engine, traction control, ASR and EPB inoperable. I pulled over, turned the car off for a bit then on again to see if the warning lights would reset (!) - they didn't. I was able to limp the car home, a journey of about 1 hour/20 miles, with difficulty - the gearbox would only stick with one gear (5th I think) which made moving off the lights and hillstarts particularly interesting... I've not been smoked off the line by a <1L Citroen before.
Any ideas what I'm up against here? Mine has the ZF 6-speed (which I thought was fairly reliable!) and the battery is only about 3-4 months old and lives on a CTEK.
What happened - car was driving normally until I selected manual and 2nd gear, and as I was accelerating through the rev range the car lurches forward and selects 3rd... I immediately reselect auto/Drive and continue on sheepishly. This has happened once before about 3 months ago (also slipping out of 2nd and into 3rd) but as a one-off I thought nothing of it. About 30 mins later whilst stationary at some lights I receive the error message above along with what appears to be a red handbrake warning light, check engine, traction control, ASR and EPB inoperable. I pulled over, turned the car off for a bit then on again to see if the warning lights would reset (!) - they didn't. I was able to limp the car home, a journey of about 1 hour/20 miles, with difficulty - the gearbox would only stick with one gear (5th I think) which made moving off the lights and hillstarts particularly interesting... I've not been smoked off the line by a <1L Citroen before.
Any ideas what I'm up against here? Mine has the ZF 6-speed (which I thought was fairly reliable!) and the battery is only about 3-4 months old and lives on a CTEK.