2013 Hyundai Elantra: stuck in gear or won't shift

Filed Jun 4, 2022 · Transmission · PA

I was stopped at a traffic light, when my car stalled out and shut off, completely random, no warning signs whatsoever. No warning lights, no weird unusual sounds from the vehicle, just all of a sudden it shuts off! So I had to hurry and put it into park, turn the key back to off, and try to turn it back on. It BARELY started, once it was started we had a green light plus it sounded like it was going to stall out on me again. BUT when I pressed down on the gas peddle, there wasn't any normal acceleration. The car was in 5th gear and wouldn't shift down to allow it to accelerate at all like it should. So I am trying to get out of the middle of the intersection, had the peddle to the floor, and it's barely moving. While I'm trying not to die, I also noticed that there was NO RPMS being shown on the dashboard. Like absolutely 0 RPMS. This isn't the only time this has done this to me!! It seems like it's becoming more frequent, although still without warning indicating that it was going to act this way. And of course it's been at a busy intersection, basically playing chicken with my life. My husband hooked up a code reader to see if anything pops up and nothing indicates any sort of problem. It will be going to the shop for them to look at asap, but I haven't been able to successfully replicate the issue on command, it just does it whenever it wants to, conveniently when it's just myself and my 9 year old son in the car, no one else that may be mechanically inclined along. This has happened twice now, 1st time last week, and the latest time was today. It gets serviced regularly like it's supposed to, and it will be up for inspection in July 2022.

Filed Aug 11, 2017 · 70,000 miles · CT

Over the past two years the car will get shifted into drive and a blank space will go where the d is supposed to next to the speedometer. Upon stopping and trying to park, the gear shifter gets stuck in neutral and will not move to park. You must restart the car in neutral just to put it in park. This has happened at least three times in the past two years.

Filed Dec 26, 2016 · Brakes, Engine · 1,000 miles · MD

About 4 times per year, the vehicle will not shift out of park. I must use the shift release button and this takes awhile to work. I have had this happen when the car is idling in a parking lot, parked at a drive-thru, trying to leave a parking lot. This has happened about 12 times since I bought this vehicle. I took it to a hyundai dealership and they could not replicate the issue. The first occasion was around 1,000 miles on the odometer.

Filed Aug 16, 2016 · Transmission · 55,000 miles · GA

The gear shift in my automatic drive 2013 hyundai elantra will not shift back into park occassionaly. With some trying it has gone back into park or using the shift lock. I assume that this could cause some potential danger had I not been on a flat service or in an area where I could try to get it to go back in to park. Luckily I was stationary on a level lot during the 5 times that this has happened to me. This has occurred multiple times and my car has approximately 55k miles.

Filed Aug 2, 2016 · Transmission · 75,000 miles · TN

The gear shift in an automatic drive elantra car will not shift back into park occassionaly. With some trying it has gone back into park. This could be potentially dangers to someone who stops on a hill and cannot manuever the gear shift back into park. I was stationary on a level lot both times it happened to me and both times were in a parking lot. This occurred 2 in the last 4 days and the car has a little less than 75,000 miles.