Last night I pulled in from work and the transmission had a real hard time shifting into park. It went with a little bit of force and the car parked fine. This morning woke up, car started and shifted fine with no problem, went to store came out and now the car wont start. It seems like the shifter will not fully go into park and the car rolled forward into the concrete parking stop on the ground.

When I try to start the car it goes to the ignition position but there is nothing. Car doesnt try to start at all. Lights work, radio works but car wont start. The brake pedal is real hard to depress and the shifter does not want to go fully into park and only goes into reverse and nuetral. Also the shifter position does not seem to correlate with what reads on the dash. Car wont shift into park at all.

Any idea what it is? I looked up some stuff and sounds like maybe a nuetral safety switch or range sensor? Maybe a cable? Someone said to look at the fuses but Im not with the car now and needed a ride to work.

Any ideas? I need this fixed by tommorow!!!

Thanks

 

Car is 2000 monte carlo 3.4 btw. 160k miles. Transmission shifted fine before this, no slipping. Motor runs fine also.

 

If you can get it in neutral it should start, then see if you can drive and get it checked out.

 

Ok thanks Ill try that to see if that works. Hopefully it does so I can get it to a shop. Thanks

 

car should start in N or P like stated...

the two things that i feel would cause this is a bent or twisted shift cable. or a bad transmission range switch. is it possible something fell in the center console that would be jamming the shifter keeping it from going into park?