My spyder SMT -01 so far.

I bought the car from Toyota here in Sweden in oktober 2010 with 138000 km on the odometer.

After winter storage outside 2010/2011 the problems began with jerking when starting and slipping when chancing up at higher rev. This was in februari 2010. I drove the car daily with this issues (coming and going) and in May the gearbox just went dead. When engaging 5th in 100 km/hour there was a bang so load that i thougt the hole car was about to explode. Got a new gearbox on the 10 year warranty. Think I had 12 days left until 10 years .

The car drove well for some time but then the jerking and slipping got back. It got better after driving hard so everything got really warm and sometimes the troubles went away completely but to be back next day when everything was cold. Toyota said that it's normal for that kind of gearbox ... as they could know with only 4 SMT (all imported) in Sweden and a total of 90 MR2 Spyders. They just didn't wanna deal with the car i think.

Before the winter storage outside 2011/2012 something went wrong so i couldn't engaged a gear. Me not having any place to put the car inside just let it be parked all the winter outside. A couple of weeks ago i managed to drive the car. That after doing the re-learn with the right software from a laptop. The software did what is supposed to do (beside that last thing of the N flashing after driving away at the end of the re-learn) and I also tried most functions like stating the HPU, engaging gears and other things, it just worked everything I did. But before i could drive away I had to rev up to 5 000 for the clutch to engage. After doing that reving for a while the clutch seemed to work as i should. The smell of a warm clutch was present.

Next morning the N didn't lit and the gear couldn't be engaged and the red gearbox constantly lit but I could start the car and the gear box is in N for what i can see on the rod that should bee showing the hole straight up and down. The re-learn can't be done just because of the N must be lit and the software doesn't really check if it is. Just a dialog box telling me that it should be in N for a re-learn.

The battery is fresh and the reservoir tank has been emptied and refilled with fluid three times so there should be fresh liquid in the hole system. The APS has been replaced and that was a waste of time and money in my case.

I'm leaning to that the problem is some mechanical thing with the clutch that is heat related and has been that from when the problems began. Even a completely new gear box didn't fix the problem. The positive thing in all this is that i haven't spent a lot of money on the car. The APS is the only thing I've replaced. Don't remember what it cost but not more than $200 i think.

Leaving the keys to Toyota is an absolute last thing i would do because I'm not made of money! But maybe i have to do just that, let Toyota do it but I'm not there yet because I'm not depending on the Spyder for daily travel to work. I have a Saab 9000- 91 and a Kawasaki Z 750 LTD- 81 for daily travel.

Finally: this forum is just the best! My problems haven't been sorted out put the willing to help is what counts!