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really awful- Crashes / Fires:
- 0 / 1
- Injuries / Deaths:
- 1 / 0
- Average Mileage:
- 76,166 miles
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The contact owns a 2007 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that the shift lever became stuck in park. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 90,000.
- Odenville, AL, USA
Started my car would not shift out of park. I tried several times, as this has never happened to me in all my 44 years of driving.
- Buffalo, NY, USA
The contact owns a 2007 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that the vehicle failed to shift from park. The vehicle was towed to a private mechanic where it was diagnosed that the gear shift lever interlock and the spring hook needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure and current mileage was 63,000. Updated 08/18/14
- Jonesville, SC, USA
The contact owns a 2007 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that the shift lever became stuck in the park position. The vehicle was taken to a dealer. The technician diagnosed the transmission shifter interlock lever needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure and current mileage was 93,000.
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
The gear selector will not go out of park and into reverse (or any other gear). I checked on line and found out that 100's of other owners have had this problem on 2006-2009 Chrysler 300's. the part is about $56. Not sure how much the labor would be to install it.
- Bartlett, TN, USA
Parked the car at home and the next morning could not remove the car out of park.
- Dayton, OH, USA
The gear shift stuck in park position there was a notification but I was told my vehicle was not covered in that notice for 2005-2007 Chrysler 300 due to its build date.
- Lawrenceville , GA, USA
Reference PE13-016 Chrysler 300 (hemi) when filling my car with gas (shields) the car will stuttered, act as if is trying to shift gear and engine light will come on. This particular day going home down a hill, the car started stopping motions and stop, after starting for the second time it begin to jump an as if it was trying to shift gears, after began shaking an vibrating really hard and stopped was toll by my insurance company usaa, to my house in the middle of the night, the next morning to the automotive shop...900.00 to get it started. It continues to jerk as if it is trying to shift gears and the engine light is on. Please help
- Chesterfield, VA, USA
Reference PE13-016 Chrysler 300 (hemi) when filling my car with gas (shields) the car will stuttered, act as if is trying to shift gear and engine light will come on. This particular day going home down a hill, the car started stopping motions and stop, after starting for the second time it begin to jump an as if it was trying to shift gears, after began shaking an vibrating really hard and stopped was toll by my insurance company usaa, to my house in the middle of the night, the next morning to the automotive shop...900.00 to get it started. It continues to jerk as if it is trying to shift gears and the engine light is on. Please help Chrysler 300 hemi
- Chesterfield, VA, USA
The vehicle is stuck in "park". park lock out mechanism is not functioning. Have read many complaints on line of other vehicle owners with the same problem on the Chrysler 300 and Dodge magnum. I can't move my car. It is stuck were I parked it.
- Evans, GA, USA
The car will start but can not be shifted from the park gear. VIN number does not match to the ones that have already been recalled. Problem is recognized by auto tower and is frequent.
- Tulsa, OK, USA
The contact owns a 2007 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that she was unable to shift out of park. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, who advised her that the vehicle was not included in the manufacturer's customer satisfaction campaign for a defective transmission shift interlock lever. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 100,000.
- Swansea, IL, USA
The car couldn't be taken out of park. Finally broke into the shifter lever by removing the covers (very tricky to do, as I didn't have my tools), so my husband wouldn't have to come pick me up an hour away. I almost didn't figure this out, so lucky for me I kept trying it. There are lots (many, many) sites that talk about this same problem on Chrysler 300S, including youtube (which shows how to unscrew the whole thing), and automotive forums. There are some small neon pink plastic pieces that keep the shifter lever working properly, the only thing keeping the car from becoming a giant paperweight (unless one knows to pull apart the covers all the way to access the gears/wires - not a reasonable thing to expect from most consumers). For now, I have to pull a wire to get out of park. Happens when put in reverse also. This also leads to ppl keeping their foot on the brake instead of going into park, just so they don't have to mess with the wire. We have people accidentally going forward and hitting things as they try to stay in drive rather than putting it into park, while talking to someone they know on the street/sidewalk and forgetting to keep their foot on the brake, (be it at a slow speed, but still not good if children get in the way while one isn't paying attention). I will be taking the car back to dealer to see what can be down about it. This is definitely a problem for anyone relying on their car being able to do simple things like shift into drive (or really anything other than 'park'), and is a safety risk due to drivers attempting to use the car. What could have disturbed these plastic pieces is my mile long dirt driveway that is a little bumpy and very wet currently. I would really like to see something done on this, so that other people don't go through the same problem as I did. Thank you!
- Huntsville, TX, USA
The contact owns a 2007 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that she attempted to take the vehicle out of park but the gear shift would not move. The vehicle was towed to the dealer for inspection but the cause of failure was unknown. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 145,000.
- Rex, GA, USA
Driving 45 mph accidentally bumped gearshift into neutral brakes locked up unable to steer. Placed vehicle off road then attempted shift from park vehicle will not come out of park. You must remove the shifter cover to shift from park.
- Live Oak, FL, USA
The contact owns a 2007 Chrysler 300. The contact stated that while driving approximately 40 mph, the transmission began to shift out of gear in a jerking motion without warning. On a separate occasion the gear lever failed to shift out of park. A certified mechanic inspected the vehicle and detected that the gear lever assembly would need to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact referenced NHTSA campaign id number 06V341000 (power train) however, the VIN was not included in the recall. The manufacturer was notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 80,000.
- Ooltewah, TN, USA
Check engine light on for P1004 cel"intake short runner control valve actuator, a tsb is listed as Chrysler knowingly acknowledges a faulty part and has issued a tsb repair cost approx $2000 for a know defective actuator that may be stuck due to a poor design, will not pass California emissions due to cel Chrysler will not honor under warranty that expired in July, attempted to get repaired at dealer was denied said was not covered, should have been repaired under warranty, or at least emissions warranty that is 7 years or 100000 miles from my understanding. Please advise.
- Anaheim, CA, USA
The shifter in my vehicle has an interlock latch that isn't part of a recall. There was a recall on the same make and model of cars that were made after mine. Many people with the same make & model have had issues with this yet it isn't part of this recall. If it is a known issue I don't understand why it is not being corrected for all of these parts. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the owner when the maker is aware that this part is in fact faulty.
- Davenport, IA, USA
On 8/28/13, I got in the vehicle and started it went to move it out of park and the gear-shift would not move. I also looked in the manual it has an override which didn't work. I called a mechanic and he informed me that he had to replace the exact same piece on his vehicle about 3 months prior.
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Lakewood, CA, USA