So anyway, my car won't shift out of park after I swapped my MZ3 wing to the MS3 wing with the LEDs.
I have since replaced the brakeswitch, swapped all the fuses, and even switched the bulb but the car still does not want to shift out of park. So far I have been using the shift lock override. Any ideas?
A tap of the brake pedal releases the lock. If you pump the brakes slowly, do you hear a click? I think the last post suggests you test this lock with a battery to see if that is the cause. If it works on a battery, the problem lies elsewhere. If it doesn't, that's step one.
I'm thinking that it has to do with the voltage from the LED brake lights in the MS3 wing being different from that of the the 04-05 interior center brake light. Perhaps I need to run resistors?
When you don't have the brake pedal depressed it is closed like so:
When you are pressing on the brake pedal while in park it is open:
To get to this part you need to pull off your cup holder, then the area around the shifter, your shift knob, and finally pop off the shifter bezel. It has a clip in each corner that has to be released.
Having an LED light in place of the original incandescent light should make no difference in the way this part behaves. It's triggered by the brake switch, not the brake lights themselves. More than likely the electromagnet in this part that pushes the safety out to allow you to shift has failed.
So if that is the case how would I go about replacing it? Also once I take it apart and find that if indeed it was the part that was not moving... is there an easy fix or is it a simple replacement of the part?
Just curious... Is your horn working? The reason I ask is because I blew 2 fuses to the taillights poking around looking for a switched 12v source in the fuse box under the glove box, when that happened, not only could I not shift out of park, but my horn wasn't working. I know you said you switched out all the fuses, but I figured I still ask.
Yup, horn doesn't work either... but again all the fuses have been changed related to this whole thing. From the tail lamps both left and right as well as horn.
So I took apart my center console and took a look. And that tab definitely doesn't move when I depress the brake pedal. Does this actually affect the brake lights as well? What would be an option to this, replacing it as a whole or is there another solution?
If your horn doesn't work either, then that suggests it's a fuse/relay issue and not a problem with the shifter interlock solenoid itself. I know you said you've checked the fuses, but take another look at them -- all of them, not just the ones you think are related to the brake lights. Don't forget the fuses in the PJB (passenger junction box, located behind the glovebox).
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If your horn doesn't work either, then that suggests it's a fuse/relay issue and not a problem with the shifter interlock solenoid itself. I know you said you've checked the fuses, but take another look at them -- all of them, not just the ones you think are related to the brake lights. Don't forget the fuses in the PJB (passenger junction box, located behind the glovebox).
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Oh, I have taken a look at ALL the fuses. From the horn all the way down to just simply illumination. I think it has to do with a fuse/relay as well but to no avail as this happened almost as soon as I spliced my MS3 wing brake light harness to the 04 harness.
Haven't been fixed, haven't even had time to try to attempt to fix it.
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