Cobalt gear shift knob

redneckred
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 09:24:14 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

My daughter has a 2009 Cobalt. It has the broken plastic push button that will fall out of the shifter knob from time to time. Well, this time a little white gear fell out with it and the car would no shift into park and was stuck in either drive or neutral. I was able to figure out how where the gear goes and get it back in, but now it’s as if the spring tension that was there is gone and the push button does not want to stay in anymore and the car isn’t engaging the ignition key release. The shifter goes through all the gears, but seems to catch going into park. Can I assume the plastic gear is not aligned properly and I need to keep playing trial and error until I get it in the right spot?

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