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Old Sep 21, 2022 | 03:44 PM
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Does the shifter button have to be pressed to go from drive to neutral on a c5? Mine slides freely and I'm wondering if that is indeed wrong and what could be wrong with it.
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Old Sep 21, 2022 | 03:48 PM
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Welcome to the forum. That is normal. You DO need to push the button down to get out of park though.
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Yes still have to press it for park and reverse, I changed the shift cable and then when test driving if I put it in neutral it stayed in drive then put it in reverse and it was in neutral but once I pushed it up to park all the way then it would park and go back down the gears normally until I reached drive and then again same problem, I'm guessing my problem has to do with alignment of the cable and shifter apon reinstallation but I tried to fix that by pulling the cable all the way out and putting the shift all the way down to 1 and still got the same results
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Yeah, that has to do with the shift cable. The car should definitely shift as labeled. Are you sure you got the right shift cable?
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Fairly sure the one I got pulled up for the Vette at O'Reilly's and is Delco brand but I didn't lay the old one out next to it to check exact size
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I'm not sure what you did wrong. You may want to post this over in the C5 Tech section. Good luck!
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