Well I had a appointment to go to this morning and hopped into the Slingshot for a nice ride to the navy base. Sally needed gas so stopped and filled her up. Went to leave and the Drive button would not work. Pushed it many times and ended up pushing the sling into a parking spot. It is a easy push in neutral. Sit there and mashed the button for about 5 minutes and the Drive light came on so not taking any chances I did a motor cycle reverse with my left leg till a was far enough to turn and go forward. Drove home and got the Jeep to go to the base. Now this is the second time this has happened. Took it her to the dealer and wouldn't you know they couldn't get it to fail. Well this time I removes the switch assembly and stopped at the dealer on my way home after the base appointment. Well a new switch is a few dollars short of $400 but I am still under warranty and will have to get a appointment with the service man. $75 to tow it into to them so when I got home I took the cover off the switch and the switches are like the keys on a computer keyboard. The switch cover button pushes down on a rubber thing that pushes on a silver button. I am able to shift into drive pushing on the silver button so can drive it in to get a new switch assy. I have a service appoint the 22th so the Sling is down till then. If they have a switch by then.
Broken down Slingshot, Autodrive
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that sucks
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Just a small suggestion. If they did order you a new switch, would they be willing to give it to you and you would give them the old one back so you wouldn't need an appointment and having it sit in their lot for half a day until they got to it? It's that easy to do, you might even bring them the old one to give to them when you pick up the new one. they would get paid and you'd be back riding sooner that way
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I have not seen the switch on the new slingshots and yes they should cover it and having it OEM would be nice but have you considered an aftermarket switch that might be more reliable and would fit in the same location?
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I love having the paddle shifter option on my Vanderhall. It came in real handy doing the twisties in Maggie Valley. Quck steering allowed me to have complete steering control with hands at almost 3 and 9 o'clock positions and able to either upshift or downshifter without having to mash and wait for the transmission to kick down or upshift on it's own. Having full control of what gear you want knowing what turn you were heading inot or out of before the transmission did was the best part
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Funinthesun I imagine getting PULLED around the corners instead of PUSHED around the corners makes for nice handling as well. Perhaps I’ll get a chance to drive one of those animals Someday🙂
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These are a sweet ride and it handle a lot differently than the Slingshot. It did take me a while to feel comfortable putting it through its paces. Once I got used to it, I added the ecu power tuning to get the extra horses woken up. Dealing with having some torque steer under fully power wasn't an issue with the S/S, but having the ass end tracking straight vs it kicking out on the S/S under full power blasts is neat. I really wanted to find some wide strait places to leg it out against a Sling while I was in MV. but that might have to wait for my next trip to see Mr. Bill
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I love having the paddle shifter option on my Vanderhall. It came in real handy doing the twisties in Maggie Valley. Quck steering allowed me to have complete steering control with hands at almost 3 and 9 o'clock positions and able to either upshift or downshifter without having to mash and wait for the transmission to kick down or upshift on it's own. Having full control of what gear you want knowing what turn you were heading inot or out of before the transmission did was the best part
I agree with this.. I really like the paddles on my slingshot... It makes all the difference with the auto drive option.... A bunch of fun.
