My car won’t get out of reverse. help!!!

[angel]

My car won’t shift out of reverse. My car rolls back every time. I final turn the key off & take out the key. I shift into neutral to turn on. I have no emergency brake. I Have blocks behind the wheels to keep it from rolling back. It’s a Mercury marquis 1994.

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[Its me]

So let me get this straight..

You can start the car in neutral.

It does engage in drive. (and you drive it)

You can’t get the car to go into park.

When it goes into reverse it is stuck there till the car is turned off..

Does that about sum it up?

[angel]

Yes. The car stay in Reverse when I try to park it or shut it off. I just pull the key to turn it off.

[Its me]

Has this Transmission been rode hard and put away wet? How many miles are on it and how long ago did this happen… Did anything recently happen to the car (or was it serviced in some way?)

My advise… Start out by checking the shift linkage, it may be stretched, bound up or loosened in some way…

Also, are your brake lights working when you press the brake? and are your reverse lights coming on when you are in reverse?

Karl

[dave]

Q: how good are you at driving in reverse

[angel]

I turn the car on in neural, It’s very loose. I can drive & back up. But when I try to park the car I have to move into neural or drive & pull out the key. In the last months I’ve had trouble getting into gear of park. Today my wheel lock up & I had to use the tilt lever & turn the wheel. When I unlock it, It won’t go into park to start up. I had to start in neural. Could be low fluid or something else?

[dave]

My advise… Start out by checking the shift linkage, it may be stretched, bound up or loosened in some way…

I would check here first.

[angel]

thank you so much for the advice. I checked the shift linkage & there was a loose bolt that caused the Shifter be so loose. I also found a wire loose that caused my running light stop work. thankyou again. 🙂

[ChrisR1987]

Glad you got it fixed first time ive really heard of such a problem but im still very much a noob around here

[Author]

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