Jeep stuck in park won't turn off
Vehicles falsely detect that they are not in park even when the shifter is physically in position, locking the shifter and refusing to let the ignition turn off. This traps drivers with electronics stuck on and drains the battery while they try to find a workaround.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1holding the Start/Stop button down
- 2pressing the brake and moving the shifter
- 3pulling the electric parking brake switch up
- 4pulling the negative terminal off the battery under the hood to kill electronics
- 5adding a resistor on the wire that runs from the ignition switch to the relay
- 6using a kill switch to turn off the relay
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Before connecting the generator everything was ok. I switched the key off, the relay turned off and the ignition coil was cut off, but with the generator hooked up and the engine on just enough power runs through charging ignition light to power the relay.”source ↗
“can turn the relay off with a 0 kill switch, but I'd like to use the key.”source ↗
“The Jeep says that the vehicle is not in Park, even though the shifter is physically in P and has not been moved”source ↗
“The shifter itself is completely stuck and I cannot move it”source ↗
“When I press the Start/Stop button, it won’t let me fully turn the vehicle off because it says the transmission is not in Park”source ↗
“I don’t want to drive the vehicle or move it — I just want to get the electronics completely turned off so I don’t drain the battery while I wait for someone to look at it”source ↗
Where this came up
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