I am currently dealing with a problem which won’t let me release the car from park when cold. On the warmer days (+1 celcius), it moves to the other positions just fine, but when it’s below 0 celsius it won’t budge. The manual release button under the center console does not work.

When first trying to move the shifter to the right before going downwards, it’s kinda sticky like it’s frozen. I can’t seem to find any post describing it like me.

If I jack up the car and put a heater directly under the shifter lever and leave it for about 30-60min, it will release from park. But it will be stuck again the next day.

Im thinking maybe there is a water drop or something inside the "shifterbox" and have thought of spraying a little wd40 or crc inside, but I don’t want to do that since I have read that the shifter is super sensitive to any form of liquid and will break.

I have read a few post about a cracked "solenoid plastic lever", but I can’t understand which lever this is.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

 

Can you release manually? ( )

 

No this does not work. I have tried several times.