I don't mean a shift lever but a lever buried underneath the shifter in the transmission tunnel. It could be a button or a small slide. There's usually something underneath there.
The new vehicles that just lock up.
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Could you use car wash mode? It's meant for those weird drive-thru car washes that pull your car along by the tire, but is that any different from trying to put a vehicle on/off the tow truck? Do non-EV GMs have the same thing?
To activate car wash mode on a Chevy Bolt, you need to follow these steps:
To activate car wash mode on a Chevy Bolt, you need to follow these steps:
- Open the door while pressing the brake, then shift to N (Neutral).
- The indicator should now show N. If it does not, select N (Neutral) again.
- Shift into P (Park) upon arrival at the car wash.
- Drive to the entrance of the car wash.
- Apply the brake pedal.
- Shift to N (Neutral).
- Turn off the vehicle and release the brake pedal.
- The indicator should continue to show N. If it does not, repeat steps 2–4.
- The vehicle is now ready for the car wash.
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I have never seen so many dollies used here in SC vs. anywhere else I resided, thought it was just standard practice here.
I'd guess that this issue is the result of a gov't requirement, intended to prevent cars from rolling away if they jump out of park.
I'm guessing this is unique to the FWD systems? I sure hope the GM 8L and 10L transmissions don't have this design fail.
Either way requires a tow truck wheels turning or not….
Might not have a choice.In 10 years. Say your currant car is wrecked and you need to buy a replacement you may have to buy something newer.
Also some states are trying to outlaw gas powered cars in 10 or so years .
I am hanging onto my 2002 Jeep as long as possible.. It has enough technology to run well and still be easy to diagnose. its also a manual so a couple guys can push it out of an intersection if it dies
Prius is really bad about this, basically no easy way to get it into neutral unless you have a key and working electronics.
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You can Google various makes and find this ain’t just a GM thing …
Owners manual might surprise you as well …
Owners manual might surprise you as well …
Your right when talking the NON ELECTRONIC DAYS OF CARS, everything in a now automatic transmission uses electrics for ALL functions.
Then of course the parking brake is ELECTRONIC NOW, so with out a nice charged battery and good unburnt wiring to send that voltage and current to all those fancy gadgets, that vehicle is a dead whale, that needs a bulldozer to move it.
The shifters use drive-by-wire so it's an electronic signal sent to the transmission rather than physically modulating a lever. The problem is perhaps more simple. Tow drivers are unable to keep up with all of the methods used to place these transmissions into neutral and/or they don't want to get blamed for "damaging" the interior of the car so they just use dollies. I don't blame them.
Sure ! It seems everytime I do that it gets deleted because a bad word was said in it. And since I just skim through some of the long video's I didn't dare post it here.
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