Technical AMT temporary failure. Electrical issue?

[ashesu]

Hello.
I have a 2009 1.2 Fire Panda with an automated manual gearbox. Today while driving, during a gear hange it got stuck in neutral. No warnings in the dash. Turning off and on the engine, moving the shifter in any way did not help. I once heard an unusual noise coming from the gearbox - the pump/motor that controls the transmission. A few minutes later when I started the car again everything started working normally.

Also, since few days ago steering wheel warning dash light with text "have power steering checked" started coming up sometimes although everything seemed to work normally.

I'm thinking these might be related to some electrical issue. Though the battery is relatively new (1.5 years old) and was changed with the dynamo recently according to the man who sold it.

For a month everything was fine, I drove mostly with city mode on too.

Any ideas what this could be in particular?

I would check the battery voltage with multimeter and look for issues with OBD2 but I don't have these at the moment.

I appreciate any help.

 

[jackwhoo]

Check/replace the gear position switch/sensor on the robot

 

[ashesu]

Check/replace the gear position switch/sensor on the robot

A lot of disassembly to reach it and I don't think i would see anything useful there. As I mentioned before, selection and engagement positions in MES are perfectly consistent during testing.

I suppose there's only one thing to do, do tests and check values during the failure. But it's frustrating since it might take months to happen again.

 

[jackwhoo]

Well yes the fault didn't occur during testing so you wouldn't see a problem on mes.

Change it or don't change it , it's up to you but you will get no where if you do nothing.

If it doesnt bother you leave it alone.