Started the car pushed in on the brake as usual to release the safety on the gear shifter so it'd go in reverse and it wouldn't go in gear. I mashed the brake harder & still nothing. I tried turning the steering wheel thinking maybe it was the safety thing locking up in that but it was real loose! By now my kids were late for there apptments so I gave up and went inside and started calling around. The nearest dealership said it was a line running from my shifter to my brake up to the steering I needed to tow it in cost my $50-300. My husband took my console apart that evening and found that the shifter is locked in place by a small pink plastic device with a wire running through it which is attached to your braking system somehow on one end yet on the other end its attached to some kind of spring which is attached to yet get this, another piece of plastic! Well my spring broke and the pink plastic thing cracked!!! I find this to be a safety hazard. I strongly feel that chrysler should be having to deal with and fix these issues.
2008 Chrysler Sebring transmission complaints
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Tl*the contact owns a 2008 chrysler sebring. When the vehicle was parked, the gear shift became stuck in the park position and would not move. She tried all of the helpful hints that the manufacturer had given her but none of them worked. The vehicle was towed to the dealer. The approximate failure and current mileages were 57,000.
2008 chrysler sebring. On august 6th, the car gear shifter knob was seized in the park position. Upon reading the internet, it became very apparent that this is an obvious defect on chrysler's part. The shift knob is attached to a small plastic pink "flipper" type part, that easily becomes detached from the spring. The only fix by professionals is a $400.00 repair. The sad reality is that the actual fix is a $5.00 part...
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 chrysler sebring. The contact stated he started the vehicle and was unable to remove the gear shift selector from the park position. The contact attempted several times to move the selector but to no avail. The manufacturer would not provide any assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileages were 71,058. Updated 12/08/10. *lj the consumer stated he attempted to move the gear shift out of park, but it would not move from park to reverse. The vehicle was towed to a repair shop and the necessary repairs were made. Updated 12/13/10
Just had got off work and car has been park for over 6 hours. When I got inside of the car I went to crank it up and everything was fine. After I tried to switch to reverse to back up the gear would not allow me to pull it back out of park. Tried turning it off and on but that didn't work.
2008 chrysler sebring..gear shift gets stuck in park and can not be released from park. The dealership said it is an ongoing problem and they have to replace the part on average of 20 cars per month. The dealer said he has replaced the same piece on same vehicle within a 12 month period. It is a little plastic piece that hold the gear shifter in place and when plastic part breaks the gear shift can not be removed from park. If this part would happen to break while car is in drive position and gearing down to 3rd gear for going downhill there would be no way a person would be about to get car out of drive and could cause serious injury or death if person was unaware that the part broke while driving. Chrysler is not taking this serious and told me to go to this website and put in complaint and maybe could get a recall put on that part, but until recall is put on there customers are responsible for $200 worth of repairs to fix a problem that might happen again in just a couple months. This part could easily be replaced with a metal piece instead of plastic.
2008 chrysler sebring pink plastic lever broke inside shifter causing car to stay in park, unable to shift gears.
Automatic transmission shifter connection is plastic and cracked. Once this piece cracks, the gear shift will not engage. I parked my car, and the next time I tried to leave, the gear shift would not engage. The part has to be replaced. After doing a little research on the internet, it appears to be a very common issue with this particular part.
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