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OT - Car Gets Stuck in Park

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Kirk Grau

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'99 Volvo S80. When parking on an incline shift to park and car rolls slightly and will "jam" such that it can't be shifted out of Park. Work-around (other than to avoid inclines) is park, keep brake depressed, set parking brake, shift into Park, turn car off. If it does get jammed solution is to borrow a passenger/passer-by and ask them to rock the car manually. Wife and daughter forget process or forget to remove parking brake and drive miles causing other issues. Don't think it relates to any of the switches involved since rocking the car is what will resolve it. Wondering if there is any sort of adjustment possible. Haven't found anything on the Volvo forums yet, but you guys are usually quicker anyway.

Thanks,

Kirk
 
Our Subaru does the same thing so we have been using the parking brake as you describe for years. I always figured that was what I was supposed to do anyway, but maybe there is a better way.
Zach
 
The park mechanism is basically a dog clutch design. It simply will not release easily if there is pressure against it. Just the nature of the design. The fix for this would be back at the engineering level.
 
Thanks for the first thoughts and I am kind of expecting to just have to live with this, but it really doesn't take but the slightest incline to jam things up to the point that it requires assistance to get out. We recently "inherited" this car from my in-laws for one of our daughters. It's pretty decent for as old as it is other than this issue. Personally, I only bother to set a parking brake on an auto transmission when the hill is extremely steep and never had an issue getting a vehicle out of Park until this car. Parked at the local feed store last week in a spot that I have probably parked at least 150 times with other cars/trucks, has the slightest incline. Did not go through the "procedure" and the transmission was so jammed that I could move the lever through the whole range of motion and not have it release from Park. Just doesn't seem right to me.

Kirk
 
If there is that much flex in the shift mechanism, sounds like something is loose of broken. But then could be broken from having to be forced. Might put it up on a lift and see what's going on. I've not heard of this problem, so there should be a solution. Could get someone hurt trying to rock it, be careful!
 
seen some older fords do that. my fil had 1977 thunderbird back in the day and it would do that .
 
Years ago elderly couple parked motor home atop Monarch pass. After brief rest, cup of coffee, they were hurrying to get down before dark. Motor home locked in park, likely due to heat from incline. They had called wrecker, upset about spending money they were short on. We got wrecker stopped before charges. I found a rock to block wheels, had my wife get in and apply brake. Just did not trust the old fellow. Got under , as wife pulled on gear selector , gave the transmission lever, not the rod, a good jerk. Result made some new friends that day.
 
(quoted from post at 16:35:13 08/19/15) [b:763565d22b]Did not go through the "procedure" and the transmission was so jammed that I could move the lever through the whole range of motion and not have it release from Park. Just doesn't seem right to me.[/b:763565d22b]

Kirk
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Something very wrong here. You shouldn't be able to move the lever at all if it is locked in park
 
some Fords use to come out of park, if you left them running, back in the 70s. Had a friend start his up to warm up went inside, it slipped out and ran over a hundred and fifty thousand dollar airplane.
 
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