HELP! My VX wont come out of park.

[blacksambo]

Remarkably enough you are right Tone, and I'm the first to admit when I'm wrong and I am for sure here, they both go into Drive with key in Accessory and the engine is off, but it still does not answer why it's more difficult to shift into Drive in cold weather? Any thoughts? Thanks.

[kwynn]

My VX gets stuck in Park all the time, all I know is:
When you park it, if you have trouble getting it in to Park don't force it, that's how mine gets stuck in P. If you have trouble getting in in park, just try another gear like reverse let it roll back and gently try Park again...this has kept mine from getting stuck in Park for months.
The only way I ever found to get it unstuck from Park was to gently keep fiddling with it, with the brake pressed down...one time it took me hours.
My problem is a result from an accident when my chest was forced in to the gear shift and it hasn't been the same since...but I have learned to deal sucessfully.
I think the tow driver was rough with it...

[Twilight Imaging.net]

Just a side note...on the spilled drink...sounds unbelievable...but...

My 4 year old spilled a Wendy's coke I had in there climbing around (sheesh) and didn't say anything, the next day the shifter would not move at all. No matter the force I applied.
That stuff had sat and goobered everything together solid. I wrenched for 15 years and would never think that coke would do this...but it did. Nasty!
Water only is the rule inside the cab, hehe.
I am not saying this is what happened here, but it did happen to me...once!
Good Luck!
Oh, I think you owe us an explanation on why it was towed

[VCAMILO]

My truck will not come out of park

I have a solution for that one. Atleast how I got it fixed. My problem was the magnet that releases the shiftlever and allows it to get out of park. Take the entire plastic around the shiftlever and roll the leather up. find the magent that allow the shift level clip angage when you press on the brake pedal. now CLEAN IT HECK OUT of it. and viola! Thats happened to me three weeks after I spilled a SUPER GULP into my center console. The soda dries out and makes the magnet sticky not releasing the machanism when you press on the break pedal. I hope this helps. I think it took me about 30 minutes to all the work.

[etlsport]

you could always cover it up to prevent that kinda stuff from happening in the future!

[WyrreJ]

Or only let diet soda in the cabin. That's probably my favorite thing about diet soda is that when it spills - there is no stickiness at all. Aside from stains, it might as well just be water.

[Cobrajet]

Or only let diet soda in the cabin.

If I was forced to drink diet soda, I think there would be something more damaging than soda spewed on my interior...