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gear lever trouble

Discussion in 'International Owners' started by Scroller, Dec 3, 2005.

  1. Scroller

    Scroller New Member

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    Hello afunny thing happened to my prius to day After driving for a
    distances I parked for a few min-nits then i started the prius selected
    drive accelerated the prius and it jumped out of gear and went into
    neutral i then put it back into drive and it jumped out again. I held the
    gear lever in the drive position and it was OK but i am still holding on
    to the gear lever, I then put it into reverse it was OK,I tried
    using the drive again and all is OK again I was able to drive home and
    as i said before everything is OK. Has anyone had a similar trouble .
    bye from scroller.
     
    #1 Scroller, Dec 3, 2005
  2. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    That's really odd. You need to have the looked at.
    Any car that falls out of gear should be corrected as quickly as possible.

    As for what's causing it, I can't begin to imagine.
     
    #2 TonyPSchaefer, Dec 3, 2005
  3. hobbit

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    You *are* letting the lever go back to its rest position, right?
    If you select "D" and then let the lever move back too slowly,
    the "neutral timeout" will kick in while you're lagging movement
    in the "gate" between N and the rest position. Shift fairly
    briskly and *LET GO* and make sure the lever returns to its
    middle-right position. You have about a half-second to finish it.
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    If it's still dropping to neutral, then that means the position
    sensor for that axis isn't working right. Can you shift to B?
    If you can dig in far enough to access the connectors on the back
    of the shift selector, you could try reseating them. Another
    diagnosis of a physical/electrical problem might be banging on the
    dash to see if you can trigger the problem.
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    But initially we can't discount the possibility of pilot training..
    .
    _H*
     
    #3 hobbit, Dec 3, 2005
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