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Automatic shifter button wouldn't depress by notwohorns
Started on: 06-28-2014 05:43 PM
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Report this Post06-28-2014 05:43 PM Click Here to See the Profile for notwohornsSend a Private Message to notwohornsEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
While up on the Dells Run, it happen to me two times. I was driving and pulled in somewhere to pak and I couldn't depress the button on the shifter handle to push it into park. . The shifter would move from drive the neutral and from neutral to drive but there is no shift detent for those gears. The button would not go in to get it into any other gear. I kept moving the shifter back and forth and finally the button did depress. I tape the button in the depress position for the rest of the trip and didn't have any problems. When I got home, I took the shifter surround off but I couldn't see any problem-everything was working as it should. Dose anybody have any ideas what could have caused the problem?
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Report this Post06-28-2014 07:49 PM Click Here to See the Profile for css9450Send a Private Message to css9450Edit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Might be a long shot, but make sure the shifter handle is fully seated all the way down where it belongs on the shaft.

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Report this Post06-30-2014 02:25 PM Click Here to See the Profile for GKDINCSend a Private Message to GKDINCEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Check to see if you have brake lights. Could be the switch on the brake pedal. Just a thought
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Report this Post06-30-2014 09:03 PM Click Here to See the Profile for notwohornsSend a Private Message to notwohornsEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
I will check that. I didn't know there was a brake switch to release a shift lock out solenoid. I didn't know there was a shift lock out solenoid
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Report this Post07-01-2014 07:51 AM Click Here to See the Profile for BloozberrySend a Private Message to BloozberryEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
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Report this Post07-01-2014 08:49 AM Click Here to See the Profile for olejoedadSend a Private Message to olejoedadEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
 
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Originally posted by notwohorns:

I will check that. I didn't know there was a brake switch to release a shift lock out solenoid. I didn't know there was a shift lock out solenoid


No lockout solenoid. The button release is purely mechanical on the shifter mechanism.
No brake switch interface either.

So much erroneous 'helpful' info on here sometimes......
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Report this Post07-01-2014 08:58 AM Click Here to See the Profile for seajaiSend a Private Message to seajaiEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
 
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Originally posted by notwohorns:

I will check that. I didn't know there was a brake switch to release a shift lock out solenoid. I didn't know there was a shift lock out solenoid


There isn't a brake shift interlock solenoid on a fiero. There is a cable that goes between the shifter and ignition switch to keep the shifter from being moved out of park when the key is in the "off" position.



It could be out of adjustment.



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