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The safty button on my gear shifter wont push in... I can't get my car out of park. It is a 99 cont auto-trans zetec.
This morning I started my car and let it warm up. When I got in my car to goto work, my heater was turned on. I put the car in drive, I felt a light thump, and my heater shut off. All of this happend right when I put it in drive. I put it back in park and tried turning the knob on the heater. It wont turn back on. At this time I go inside to let my mom know, when I go back out to my car I start it back up. I push down on the break, and the button on my shifter will not go in. I've tried stomping on my break, turning my wheels... everything. I looked under my hood and I dont see any belts broke or out of the ordinary.
Please help me, my car wont go in drive!
'99 SE baby blue
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you broke a mechanism under the gear shifter....get a pick and lift the black cover off...under neath you can see the mechanism that goes down to let the shifter backward.
Play with that and you can manually get it to go down, and then using it this way you can use your car....I had to do that for a week before I got it fixed.
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00 Audi S4, 2.7 Bi-turbo quattro 
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You sure? I had the same problem a few weeks ago, heater/ac quit on me, put it in park, and couldnt get it out or park. Turns out it was just a fuse. So check your fuses before you do anything else.
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Sounds like a fuse. When the key is in the ignition (motor runnin), when you push on the brake, you hear two clicks: One in the steering column, one under the shifter. The one in the steering column (IIRC) locks the key in place so you can't take it out while driving. The one under the shifter is a small electronic actuator (about 3" long) that pushes a pin out of the way of the shift column. The pin keeps the shifter from moving when the car isn't running. It sounds like the fuse blew and the actuator won't push the pin out of the way. Check your fuses; all of them; both boxes, because I don't know which one it might be. Good luck!
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about 2 years ago my heater did not work. It would only blow when it was turned onto HI no cold air just warm.I found out there was a recall on the heater/blower switch. got that replaced free of charge works fine.
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The only time my AC/heater went out was when my abs kicked in and the heater was on full blast so it overloaded the fuse and blew it. So i would check the fuse as well. I never thought the shifter was hooked up to the same fuse though. The fuse i had to change was i believe a 60amp (yellow one) under the hood.
1998 Contour SE
Mods so far:
Air Intake
Custom Catback Exhaust
Enkei 16x7 Rims Covered by Barum Tires
(Sadly the only thing I don't like about my car is that it has an Auto Trany.)
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Custom Headers
Paint Job
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It was the fuse, 15 amp under the steering wheel, everything works fine now, thanks guys
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Pyle Eternal 2x1000w Amplifier PLA2570 (Burnt up at the moment.)
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Originally posted by KillaKniGHt13:
It was the fuse, 15 amp under the steering wheel, everything works fine now, thanks guys
(Taking notes)
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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