My wife and I bought a 1994 Lexus ES300 about a month ago with 220K miles on it. (A little on the high side, but I figured, "Hey, it's a Lexus.")
Now after backing out of a parking spot and shifting into drive, the transmission doesn't make the shift all the way, it seems to get stuck in neutral. we've tried shifting to low, back to reverse, park and back to reverse. The only thing that seemed to work, for a few days anyway, was to rev the engine a little, then it would engage and move as normal. But today she sat in the parking lot at work revving away to no avail.
The speedometer works fine (with the exception of the needle not glowing), so I don't think it's the speed sensor as suggested in other posts. I suspect it may be the transmission solenoids, but which ones and where can I get them? I've seen several sites with a placemarker for transmission parts/transmission solenoids, but nothing listed.
Anyone have any ideas?
(This is sounding a lot like the same thing her old Kia was doing before it bit the dust.)