Dead Battery-- No Roll

[tansupplyman]

Just found something out today: if the battery is dead you can't get the shifter out of park. This might be bad if it occurred and you had a roll-back pull the car up from the front--could it break the park-paw?--not sure--but wanted to post.

Got hit in the rear this week [you should have seen the 2003 Lincoln!!];it dove down and went up under the Lexus. Anyway,trunk light wouldn't go out and battery went down. Knocked the trans. shifter position indicator out of sync.[in drive indicates neutral]--but dash indicator OK--having trouble finding that prob. in the shop manual.

Also, does anyone know of a dealer(US) that has the gold plated exhaust tips-mine are damaged and dealer says NLA--Can't go to the gold site advertiser to get-in England !!.

Richard

[SKperformance]

there is a little black nub beside the shifter base

pop off the tab and there is a slot

push your key into the hole and the shifter will release the lock

i doubt it might be abel to damage the parking pall lock on the tranny

[jmblimo]

There is a release button on Gen 1

[SKperformance]

all autos with a brake applied elctronic shift lock have a bypas button

for just this instance