My Lotus Emira’s 1st gear is slipping at 8,500 miles
I’ll preface this post with the fact that I do drive my car hard. I take it to the canyons where I spend most of my time in 2nd and 3rd gear. I have launched the car about 6 times but the dealer shows 18 “standing starts” which they call launches so I’m not sure what metrics they use to define a launch.
About 150 miles ago under light city driving the car popped out of 1st gear. This has never happened before so I blamed it on driver error and moved on. Then a few days ago under the same conditions it happened again while be 100% in 1st gear so I took it to the dealer where they identified no issues and reported the car was driving as it should and any potential issues would likely be driver error/abuse.
So I took the car home and guess what… 1st gear being 100% engaged under light load popped out again.
So now the manufacturer it going to replace the gearbox assembly under warranty (thank god)
At 8,500 miles this is obviously not normal. Has anyone else experienced this issue? What would be causing this? I’m worried it would happened again.