md40022 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) Experienced a little bit of a problem with my 2010 FFH this morning. Not sure if it’s related to the hybrid engine or not, so forgive me if I’m in the wrong forum with this. Opinions appreciated though…. This morning the car starts up perfectly fine and it starts up in EV mode (it’s actually 45 degrees out, woohoo!). I get the little green car LED in the bottom right corner of the dash, meaning the car is ready to drive. I press in the brake pedal and attempt to shift into Drive, but the button on the shifter will not press in. I can’t shift out of Park. My first thought is maybe the steering wheel is locked in a funky position since I’ve seen that not allow you to shift out of park in the past. The wheel isn’t locked though. I turn the car off and back on. It again starts in EV mode. I again get the green car LED on the dash. Still cannot shift out of Park though. After a few minutes pass, the ICE comes on. And after another minute or so of me screwing around finally the button on the shift magically allows me to push it all the way in and I shift into Drive and drive away. Because I was frustrated and trying several different pieces of basic troubleshooting, I don’t know exactly what I did to get things back to normal. I have no clue if it eventually changing from EV over to the ICE had anything to do with it or not. Could have been coincidence. I know for 100% certainty that I had the green car LED on the dash while experiencing the problem though, which to my knowledge is what is telling you that you should be ready to drive. I did release the brake pedal and then press it down again before attempting to shift out of Park several times before it eventually worked. So I don’t know if anything I did “fixed” the problem or if it was a matter of having to be patient until the car was ready to drive or what (although I thought that’s what the green LED was for). Any opinions here? I don’t even know where to begin any type of troubleshooting on this. Edited February 24, 2021 by md40022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md40022 Posted February 24, 2021 Author Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) So as I do some digging on this, it looks like it's not related to the EV not being ready. My brain just went that route since this was the first morning since owning the car where I was in EV mode on a cold start. But it looks like it's more than likely something in the shifter cabling being jammed up or having a cracked bushing that might be starting to give out....... fun stuff. Edited February 24, 2021 by md40022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyross Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 It may be a faulty shift interlock solenoid. When you step on the brake, it unlocks the shifter. If it's going bad or is 'sticky', it may not release the shifter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md40022 Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share Posted February 25, 2021 That's almost right below the shifter in that center console I believe? If so, probably wouldn't be too tricky to replace. It's acted up multiple times since the original post and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to what gets it working again, so to your point I suppose that solenoid could be starting to go.... Might not be a bad starting point since It looks maybe kinda sorta easily accessible lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.