1. I HATE letting others touch my car.
Hi. This just happened with my '95 Contour SE (MTX). The plastic reverse lockout ring simply crumbled, as it appears from your pics that yours might have, too. Mine was clearly due to age, and one second seemed fine, the next it wasn't. That said, I'm also uncomfortable letting anyone drive my car who isn't familiar with the reverse lockout due to concern they'll try to force things. I can still get the mechanism to work by rotating the ring into place, if absolutely necessary, but have already ordered a shift assembly (from the knob all the way down through the rod shift linkage where it feeds into the transmission, just to also have these extra parts) from a JY.I got one machined by one of my friend, It is hard to install; I mean I don't want to the spring/cable that hold the interlock to fall inside the shifting tower.