05 Gen 2 Incessant P- lock issue

Usually the shifter springs fail but not the shifter/actuator... What are the current error codes and subcodes?

 

I've never had a problem with one of these and I don't know four or five of these cars so I'm imagining this is inside the transmission and this is what releases the parking paw? So is there a workaround to just get rid of the parking paw all together and use the parking brake? So when the springs go bad these are the springs that the parking solenoid is pushing against to knock it out of gear and so the springs break and the default is to be locked in park? Is there access to this thing from outside of the transmission?

 

So running the jumper wire that blue wire is coming on with ignition or is it trying to hold the parking paw solenoid in or out at all times? So if that doesn't work I would think that parking solenoid actuator whatever it is must be bad You can't make it work direct wired?

 

What codes? Could be lots of things, without some kind of guidance you (we) are blindly guessing.

I think the spring reference was about the shifter on the dashboard. The detent springs can sometimes break and cause problems with functionality.

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I was hoping to hear that about the springs I have an '04 here that looks like coffee or something something sticky and sugar it's smells and like and what have you got into the mechanical linkage and now if you put it in drive it won't go back to the middle It put it in any position it stays there doesn't return to the detent or to the center or whatever it does like my '09 does all the time so I clicked the plastic cover off the front of that thing with the knob off full that off and could see the gooey gunk in there and I just use a spray bottle of water and a paper towel or two folded right underneath the mechanism squirt squirt squirt squirt squirt hot water was in the spread zep spray bottle I'm using. And that hot water melted all that nastiness it rolled out onto the paper towel because the plastic panels are off underneath etc with the key button and all that in them. Caught all that hit it with a little dry spray lube now no matter what I do with that joystick it acts like a joystick supposed to. Maybe if that transmission lever sticks in any of the positions it might could activate this p lock??. I guess I have a transmission at one of these days I'm going to bust it open and have a look in there I hate to do it because it's a good one and see what this parking solenoid or parking Paul which must be electronically operated looks like operates like what have you I haven't seen a breakdown on the computer here with the parts and what have you pictures etc But for some of y'all it seems like this is a thing that happens pretty regular that's wild I would have to come up with a way to disable that thing permanently and just use my parking brake forever roll it right up against the parking curb every time I park that would certainly make parking a lot easier to me too funny.