Transmission stuck in low gear

[Isobar]

So driving home from work yesterday, I was doing about 40 and all of the sudden my car lost acceleration, I couldn't get it to speed up. I coasted off to the side of the road and put it into park, then tried again and I was able to drive, but now I was stuck in a low gear, I could only do about 35 mph and my RPMs would average about 4-5000 while doing it. I made it home, and when I put it into park, I couldn't rev my engine above 1500RPM. Reverse still worked fine though. I shut the car off, turned it back on in 5 seconds later and the issue was fixed. After searching around, I see there's quite a few similar complaints, but just about everyone of them said they took it to a dealer and they found nothing wrong. Has anyone had any experience with this issue? Was it a fluke, or did it seem to reoccur and what did you do to fix it?

I have a 2014 touring FWD model.

 

[Chris_Top_Her]

Something caused it to go in limp mode. Could have been a misfire or some other engine abnormality.

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

Did the check engine light come on?

 

[Isobar]

Did the check engine light come on?

Nope. Also when I shifted to Manual mode, the display would not show what gear it was in, it only showed the letter M, and I couldnt' manually shift either.

 

[Isobar]

Your car went into the limp mode and your CEL should be on. You can go to Auto Zone to read the error code(s) and get a print-out for free.

We posted at the same time, but my CEL never came on. I had no errors at all on my dash.

 

[yrwei52]

I have a 2014 touring FWD model.

Your car went into the limp mode and your CEL should be on. You can go to Auto Zone to read the error code(s) and get a print-out for free.

 

[Kedis82ZE8]

There might still be a pending code but this fault sounds catastrophic enough it should have triggered a CEL. It's still worth checking though.

 

[Isobar]

Okay good to know it was just a safety mode then, I'll make my way into an autozone later today and see if they can find anything. I didn't know about limp mode, so that's definitely nice to know.