F1 gearbox wont select gear when stationary

I installed a battery tender so I cut the "Master Switch" to OFF. After I'd done with installation I left the car to sat for few hours with "Mastery Switch" ON. Then I came to car, started it and I forgot to let it do ECU "re-learn" thing.

Car started well, all OK, no hesitation or anything else. BUT ... It wont select gear when in stationary. When trying R it wont do anything, when trying 1st it tries 3 times to engage gear (the car judders, you can clearly feel the F1 system / clutch trying to engage) but after three attempts it wont do anything.

Car was parked near a decline so my friend pushed the car a bit and after reaching fast walking phase I tried to engage 1st and it worked. But again - after coming to complete stop and choosing N, it wont go to 1st (nor R). When coming to a stop and keeping 1st gear engaged, car will start moving just fine.

I tried the "master switch OFF" three times with proper calibration (waiting 15-20 sec after ignition on before starting the car) but didn't help. Only thing the "master switch OFF" will do is that after turning it back ON, the car shows 1st gear engaged. But again, when starting the car it will go to N and wont select 1st.

As the outside temperature was around -4C or 25 fahrenheit I thought that its just cold oil. But even after 15 miles of driving and doing plenty of gear changes both in "normal" and "sport" modes - as soon as I come to stop and choose N - it wont let me select 1st.

There's no F1 warning light, no CEL, nothing - everything shows OK.

I bought car 4 days ago and during the PPI the clutch wear was 68,1%. The car has latest "normal" TCU unit fitted & calibrated 3 years ago.

 

UPDATE:

When engine running car wont select any gear. System clearly tries, car and rpm judders, but after 3 attempts it fails. When just ignition ON but engine off, car will cycle trough gears without any issues.

So clearly issue comes with engine idling.

 

As soon as a shop will take a look I'll post here.

 

The gear indicator does NOT flash. Only thing the system does it "judders" a bit when it tries to select forward gear (total of 3 times, then it gives up). When trying to select Reverse, absolutely nothing happens - no "beep", no juddering, nothing.

I actually had shut main cut off switch OFF a mere 2 days earlier for overnight (as I was scared about the battery voltage) and didn't do any "gearbox reset process" then, still the gearbox worked just fine. Only thing I did at that time was the ECU re-learn thing: "turn the ignition on and wait for 10-20sec before starting the car".

 

Hmm... As I mentioned, when all this initially happened, we were able to get the car moving by pushing it like you would do a "hill start" with a manual car. As soon as car was rolling with enough speed, the gearbox selected 1st gear.

I clearly recall that when I was limping back home (few miles middle of night), I really had to stood on the brakes at intersections (with 1st gear selected) or the car would really want to move forward.

Now I obviously can't try it as the car is at the dealer. Actually they called earlier today and said they cannot access to the gearbox ECU / cannot read the gearbox fault codes, wtf is happening?

 

The trusted independent looked the gearbox ECU and found one error code (will add it later), reseted it, did some sort of re-learn to it and adjusted PIS. Now the ECU wont throw any errors and during 10min test drive everything worked.

But this cant be right, a error code will make the gearbox not choose gear even it tries? I mean a electronic gremlin will make gearbox ECU to not choose a gear? For my experience the fault clearly felt like mechanical (gearbox tries and tries and tries and then gives up).

 

So much thank you for your inputs so far! Really appreciated!

I was really sceptic about the explanation but I have limit amount of mechanical experteese so I accepted what the shop said. They said that car needs to be driven and follow what happens and if (now when) the gearbox dies again, the investigation will move onto mechanical components.

Fortunately there's "cost free tows" included a certain car insurance packages. But the humiliation, oh the humiliation in my (very socialistic) European unnamed country where's everyone envies everyone and joys if something happens to someone more wealthy than they are.

 

So much more thank you for these replies. Because of these I insisted the shop to perform a decent (~1 hour) test drive within the city (lots of Neutral usage) before I'd collect the car and guess what happened, they got stranded with exact same issues; gearbox wont select any gear.

As far as I understood now (finally) they're going to perform a surgery to her.

Without you guys I would have collected the car and got stranded and yet again have my time wasted and the costs of getting back home etc.

 

Finally the repair shop got the gearbox removed and there were a metal part which has been torned apart from the "clutch assembly (?)". Please see pictures for better information as I kind of lack deeper mechanical knowledge.

Is this normal wear or tear? The shop didn't say anything about worn / sticky clutch throw out bearing which is also visible at one of the pics. Is there any way to test or check the condition of this bearing while the gearbox is removed? They said that the car needs a complete new clutch kit from local Ferrari Dealer. Does this kit include a new Throw out Bearing? Is there any trusted aftermarket (preferably European due the inport taxes from US) sites as the "official Ferrari Dealer tax" especially in our country is huge.

Help really needed, worst case scenario being that due the nature of the broken part, I might end up paying alone the whole process of searching problem, finding it and repairing it. Its the complexity of our local "consumer protection law".
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