On Friday night when i went to park my car the shifter accidently shifted over into the manual mode. I tried to put it back into drive but the shifter was stuck. I cant take my keys out or put the car into park. I have 74k on the odometer and im not trying to see the dealer. I noticed it happened to quite a few ppl with these cars and it didnt take long for the car to be fixed. I was wondering does anyone know what the problem is.

 

Have you tried popping the cover off the shift lock button and hittting it with a small screwdriver? It's on the top left of the shifter plate. Might release the shifter, I'm just not sure that it will work.

 

I took the whole center console off and im lookin at the shifter assembly now... heres what im lookin at..



this is the shift lock



will this help someone help me? lol

 

Did you try driving the car a short distance to see if that would free it?

 

its not even in manual i dont think... i cant do nothing but turn the engine over and listen to music

 

Yea it wont let you start the car unless your in N or P. Weird I wonder why it got stuck like that. Did you ever change the fluid?

 

i dont think its the tranny put i will try in the a.m. maybe that will work....

 

I know it won't start now. I was wondering if he had tried that before shutting it down. I had a car before that had gotten stuck in reverse, but letting the car move released it. It was weird and only happened once. That's why I thought to ask.

 

The linkage for manual mode goes straight into the valve body. Hopefully it's nothing in the tranny that broke off preventing you from re-engaging the auto linkage. You can still shift in manny mode right? up/down?

 

yes... i can still move it up and down

 

I'd start taking off the cover/pieces from up top to see if there isn't anthying loose/broken before I took to the dealer or anyone. That is, if you are comfortable doing that.

 

I'm stuck in manual mode too... but infiniti gave me this third pedal that lets me change gears.

 

your bull****tin me right ? third pedal? like a manual trans has? pix?

 

HAHAHA


What?

 

look at his sig people hahaha. Still funny none the less.