On february 10, 2018, while I was driving on the freeway, the error message "gearbox fault" came on. At the same time, there was a sudden loss of motive power although the gear shift knob was still in the "s" position. I safely pulled over and switched off the engine. After the gear shift knob had retracted, I started the engine again by pressing the start/stop button. I was unable to move the gear shift knob out of the "p" position. After repeating this procedure several times, I was finally able to turn the gear shift knob into "s" again, allowing me to drive away. The almost exact same event happened again on february 11, 2018. I had to pull over again while driving on the freeway. The only difference was that I could move the gear shift knob into the "s" position on the first try after restarting the engine. Later that day, the error message "gearbox fault" came on again when I started the engine in a parking garage. As happened the day before, I needed to restart the engine repeatedly in order to turn the gear shift knob out of the "p" position (I have filmed this incident with my phone; file size too big to upload). Furthermore, I encountered the same problem in december 2016 and january 2017 while driving on highway roads. In both cases, I brought my vehicle to the dealership for repair and informed the service advisor of the problem. However, the problem apparently still persists and has so far happened a total of 5 times.
2014 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque transmission complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2014 range rover evoque. The contact received notification of the federal safety agency campaign number: 16v614000 (power train); however, the part to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The contact had not experienced a failure. Vin tool confirms parts not available.
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 range rover evoque. The contact stated that the vehicle shifted gears independently. On one occasion, the vehicle independently shifted out of the park gear and into reverse, causing the contact to crash into a curb. As a result, the tire blew out and also crashed into another vehicle. The vehicle was towed to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the software update to the transmission needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. There were no injuries and a police report was not filed. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 10,000. The VIN was not available.
While attempting to enter highway from street to highway speeds, the evoque 2014 would not accelerate but rather rev at very high rpms for about 15 seconds and then jarringly slip into next gear. This occurred on 6 occasions, always on the highway and often as cars and trucks rapidly approached and had to slow behind me or swerve to free lanes. I was told several times by the dealer that this was likely a software problem and in an email: "a couple of weeks after installing the latest software for your transmission, the factory has requested all dealers to suspend the installation of the software. They have not gone into detail on why but I assume the software has not completely or only partially corrected the intended repairs" this has me very concerned about the reliability and safety of the vehicle.
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