Intermittent "Shift To Park" when shutting off

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Arcanox

Discussion Starter · Sep 23, 2018

As I approach my 2-year purchase anniversary, I guess my car decided to celebrate by presenting another annoyance.

Yesterday I parked at my neighbors' house and shut the car off. It dinged and said "Shift To Park" so I restarted it, observed that the shift indicator was indeed showing "P" (on both the shifter and dashboard), and shut it off again. It was fine for several starts/shutdowns after that.

Then today, I pulled in my garage and it happened again. Right as I was about to restart it, it also said "remote not detected, press brake to restart". So I did. Once again, I observed that "P" was shown in both places, shut it down again, and it was fine. I got out of the car and used the outside button on the door handle to lock/unlock the car, so I know the remote proximity is working fine.

I'm not sure if I really need to be worried, as it could have just been that I didn't wait long enough between shifting to park and shutting down, but this is the first I've ever had this happen and I haven't really changed anything about how I drive it.

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AZ EV Driver

· #4 · Sep 23, 2018

Do your doors unlock when you shift to Park? Mine do when this happens to me, so I think the switch is just fine and at least the door lock ECUs is fine. On my 2011 this seems to pop up every now and again, but then goes away. I do wiggle the shift lever and the message will disappear usually. I've kind of thought that it might be caused by shifting to Park and hitting the Power button to quickly.

VIN # B0985

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