Hi everyone, this is my first time posting but have been reffering to these forums for a couple years now. I recently just bought this x2 and got a really good deal on it. Its man problem is the shifting. When it is in gear it runs great no problems at all. A few things i noticed about the shifting.
1. Park, reverse and high are very hard to get into, you almost gave to slam it into gear with a jolt.
2. N and L you almost just float right through those gears.
3. very easy to end up in between gears which will throw a temporary code 25( transmission gear – invalid input) once i was between gears and tried to go and got a grinding sound, had to punch the shift up a bit higher to get it in H.

The fluid in the tranny was extremely brown so i believe water has gotton in at some point. I changed that out with no difference in shifting. The shifting is the same on or off so i believe the problem lies in the linkage or tranny. Ive inspected the linkage under the cover and everything looked fine except that there was alot of play in the shift shaft(not sure if thats normal.) my 04 has play in the shift shaft and it shifts ok. I did not notice any broken pieces or metal in the fluid but who knows if it was previously cleaned out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, im not sure where to go from here, replace shift shaft or go into the tranny. I am no mechanic and have never been inside a pilaris tranny but i have a service manual and some common sense.

Thanks