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So I get in my car to go to work, and the car won't shift out of park. I look inside the shift lever area and notice that there's a plastic piece blocking the shift lever stick from going to the right. So I unscrew a pen to use the ink cartridge to try to move the plastic piece, and surprisingly, it moves. So I keep playing with it and the shift lever to try to pull the shift lever to the right to pull it down to drive, and voila it's in drive. But I really need it in reverse so I try to go to reverse and hey, the same plastic piece is preventing my shift lever from pulling to the right now. So I fiddle with it again and get what I need. Temporary fix but I am NOT fiddling with this thing when I need to park in a parking lot, or parallel park on a busy road (need to shift into reverse at least once).
So I have the current idea of somehow breaking that plastic piece and saying "so long sucker!". Is this advisable, or am I going to do something I wish I hadn't. I really don't want to spend the time diagnosing and solving this issue, although I think I can do it, if I can jiffy lube it and never look back. I can't imagine a scenario where I wouldn't want my car to be able to come out of park. I mean, it has to slide to the right and then down to get to neutral, which I'm sure it can't do on its own.
Uhhhhh.. I actually removed my shifter blind This is what I’m talking about:
In the eBay item you shared I think it’s item No. 02 in the exploded diagram. In my photos it’s circled red. If I push it down with an ink cartridge from a pen, it moves out of the way and I can slide the lever over. The lever base/plastic that is obstructed is circled in yellow.
GS400 Stuck In Park
This is what I’m talking about:
