If the front trunk is anything like the one on my 2024 700XT MAX, make darned sure it is latched 100%. Mine flew off and hit me in the head at 50 mph! Dealer had to replace the battery early on under warrantee. It does start in neutral and park, though.

 

Did you look in your owners manual ?

 

Make sure the dash says P when you are trying to start it.

 

The shifter may need a small adjustment.if it does not start wiggle shifter when you press start bottom.It will start in any gear with brake applied.no brake for N or P.

 

My 2021 1000r XMR will only start in Park, all other gears need brake pulled on.

 

Make sure the shift lever is all the way to the back of the "Park" gate. I've seen some that wouldn't start with the shift lever in the middle or forward area of the gate. Maybe a switch somewhere in there needs to be adjusted.

 

Possible drive-by poster.....

 

I am noticing the same thing on my brand new 25 . Sometimes it does nothing when the start button is pressed, yesterday I was washing it off and couldn’t hear because of the pressure washer but finally I shifted to neutral and it fired up

 

A follow up to this. I noticed that when shifting to park I was getting a dash on the display instead of P. I called my dealer and asked if I should try adjusting the linkage and they said go for it. I loosened the nut on the linkage and there is a slot in the shift linkage. I moved the linkage at the gearbox and felt the detent engage, then tightened the linkage nut. Same issue, no P showing up. Then I started the machine and started cycling the shifter back and forth and finally the P started showing up when I was in park. My opinion is the Park switch needed to work in a little bit. Now it is working every time.

 

Look at the instrument cluster if it does not say park shake the vehicle and it will say park and start with no problem. There is play in the park switch and doesn't always engage until you move it a little bit by shaking the vehicle

 

I had the same problem and would not start then I noticed that it was not saying p when in park so I moved the vehicle a little bit by shaking it I heard a small click then the p for park show and everything was okay

 

I have experienced the same as Diavery and do the same shake to find park.
Although far far better than the G-2 platform, it's still not perfect. I had a Suzuki King Quad 750 that shifted perfectly and ALWAYS found ALL of the gears as well as Park.

 

The 25s were to shift like butter with this new transmission. No better then the G2 if you have to rock it back and forth to get it into park. My dealer told me there would be no problems where shifting was a concern. I too had a 750 Suzuki that did shift better then my Can-Am.

 

That’s not the case unfortunately.

I’ve seen and heard from a few guys now that they indeed do have to rock the G3’s to get it in gear/switch gears.

Some of you guys surely use the machines different from what I do, but only time I’ve had that happen to my G2’s is when the drivetrain is under load and you get stuck, say for example when plowing snow and hitting a wall of snow, it’s like the tension from the drivetrain isn’t released which makes it harder to shift. Otherwise, never happens.

 

Both of my ‘25s will not start with the shifter in park or neutral without squeezing the brake. I have verified that they are indeed in neutral or park when trying to start without the brake.

 

I had to make a slight linkage adjustment in order to get the (N) neutral to illuminate on the display. It was finicky on starting until the adjustment. All is good now.