"Shift to Park" Warning Repair for Chevy Traverse - Quick Guide!
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2024
- Welcome to the Trick Shift Garage! In this video, we will show you how to repair and fix the “Shift to Park” warning indicator on our 2018 Chevrolet Traverse. This should work for all 2nd generation Traverses from 2018 - 2023 that our experiencing this issue, though most of the affected vehicles were from 2018-2019. It mostly involves removing the center console paneling by pulling to locking tabs and unplugging some electrical connectors. Once, it’s removed we have access to add the wiring harness GM provided that should clear up the malfunction. Thank you for watching! If you have any questions please let us know in the comments!
GM Wiring Harness Part # 84733196:
www.gmpartsdirect.com/oem-par...
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Update: So the wiring harness adapter fix proved to only be temporary. A couple months later the "shift to park" error resurfaced. We ended up replacing the whole shifter assembly, which wasn't too bad! That video can be found here: czcams.com/video/eyrPiYW61go/video.html
Thanks for watching! 🙂
Thanks for the video. This was a big help!!!!
Thanks for this video!. I managed to put the wiring extension on without disconnecting the other wires...just lifted the back enough to get to the one I needed to put the extension on. Wouldn't have been able to know where to look without this video. Thanks, again.
Sweet! You're welcome! I would have done it that way too if I wasn't recording lol. Glad it was helpful and thank you for watching 🙂
Omg! This video fix the problem, thank you!!
I just spend $45 for the mechanic to come and say to change the whole shifter
You're welcome and thanks for watching! 😊
The best instructor ever. None of your students should fail.
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you found the video helpful ☺️
Awesome!
By far one of the best videos I have watched a long time. I have a 22/23 trailblazer that is having to shift to park come up on the dash. And will not allow the vehicle to be turned “off”. I am going to try this and let you know what happens. Keep up the good work man. Two 👍 to you brother.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm not sure if it will work on your Trailblazer but it won't hurt to try and see what happens lol. Thanks for watching! 👍👍
Actually it’s a Blazer😬. Didn’t have to use new harness as you did in your video. Exercised micro switch and is working great. Actually had my girlfriend do it with me (her vehicle).
Always happy to learn and pass knowledge along thanks to you sir.
Have a blessed day brother.
Ahhh ok, a Blazer makes more sense lol. Glad you cleared it up with the exercise. 🙂
I have a 2018 Traverse, I had the dealer install the extra harness but still get the message intermittently. The root cause is the cheap Micro switch that you highlight in the @2:18 in the video.
Yes indeed, that's what mine ended up doing and so have to replace the shifter unit. It's terrible that the micro switch goes out that frequently, they should have upgraded or made it a better quality switch. Either way, we'll have a video out on how to replace the whole shifter assembly soon. So stay tuned! 😉
GREAT VIDEO,INFO, STEP BY STEP..... 👏
Thanks for watching! ☺️
Great how-to video!
Thanks for watching!
Appreciate this video, it was very easy to replace. Too bad it didn't work for me, first drive after "shift to park" came up 😂
Wow! That was quick, it took a couple months for mine to come back. Ended up replacing the whole shifter assembly and that finally fixed the problem for good lol.
Here's the video in case your interested:
czcams.com/video/eyrPiYW61go/video.html
Let us know if you have any questions, thanks for watching! 🙂
Q: What does the jumper do? The GM bulletin that you show at the beginning of the video states and instructs how to install the switch you show so I bought both the switch and the harness. I replaced both and thanks to your video and a few other I saw what I needed. I found the GM bulletin had a couple problem and I'm surprised their images are so poor as I viewed it on line. Your video was helpful, thank you!
You're welcome, glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for watching! 👍
Amazing video, so I don’t need to change the whole shifter? Just this wire and the shift to park will go away?
Correct! The jumper harness should make it go away. Thanks for watching! 👍
My problem is we swap transmission from Equinox to my 2011 and by hand seems like all the gears work but with out turning on the vehicle it wont gear into park. Please help if anyone has or knows the issue so we don’t want not even started the vehicle , i know it said and read before , that some vehicle when is swap like that it needs to be re programed could that be my problem thanks in advance
I've got a 2019 traverse, less than 45000 miles. Started misbehaving about a month ago. What does this harness actually do?
Not sure how it works to be honest but it did seem to fix the issue for now. Thanks for watching! 👍
This is great, but absolutely BS we have to deal with this. Do dealerships know about your Service Bulletin?
I agree! The dealerships should be well aware of this service bulletin. You can show them this video and they should see the bulletin number and go from there. Thanks for watching! 👍
Bought this part to fix my wife’s 2019 Traverse RS that we bought new. Open the console up, and find ours already has this connector installed. Went ahead and swapped them up, but I’m highly doubtful that will change anything. Chances are I’ll end up having to replace the switch still
Yeah, it probably won't do much difference at this point. My 2018 was bought new and started experiencing the error around 45k miles. Installed the jumper/connector thing and it was fine for maybe a few months, but then one day it started acting up again. I tried looking for the micro switch and couldn't pinpoint it so I decided to just replace the whole shifter assembly.
You can watch this video here so you can see how to get the shifter out in order to replace the micro switch:
czcams.com/video/eyrPiYW61go/video.html
Hope this helps thanks for watching! 👍
will this work for the 2017 Acadia??? sure hope so cuz this sh*t is driving me crazy!
Yes it should be similar to this 2018 Traverse. Thanks for watching 🙂
Still getting the shift to park alert after install. Any ideas?
Time to replace the shifter assembly. Thanks for watching! 👍
This "jumper doesn't replace the switch. Though also not sure what the "jumper" does. If you think about it the switch is bad that's what needs to ve replaced so. This is a great video but feel though this doesn't resolve the issue. The cleaning of the contacts with the flicking makes sense but yeah.
Couldn't agree more! @aronjohn84
So far so good but I think it's just a matter of time before the shifter or switch will simply need to be replaced. Thanks for watching! 👍
That part number for that harness disables the auto stop/start. I don't think it has nothing to do with the shift into park issue.
I'm not sure either but it didn't disable my auto start/stop feature after installing it. Thanks for watching! 👍
I did everything and the problem is still there, should I change the shifter?
Yes, that's what I ended up doing and it fixed the problem for good. Here's the video for how to replace the shifter, good luck!
czcams.com/video/eyrPiYW61go/video.html
My problem is I have a shift to park up message and when I go to turn my car off, it won’t turn off. I mean it will turn off, but it still stays on if that makes any sense like I have to disconnect my battery to completely turn it off, because of that shift to park up
I’m having the same problem and it won’t crank
Did you fix it?
Nope you have any onsite?
I bought a 2015 Chevy Malibu with 21000 miles on it just today. Already having the Shift to park BS
Oh wow, sorry to hear that! I think this Traverse started acting up around 50k miles. Smh, been the only problem I've had this far.
I see video is 2 months old,, has the problem come back at all? Thanks
Yup! Unfortunately, it resurfaced this last week one time and then stopped again. At this point, I'm going to replace the whole shifter assembly, so stay tuned! 😉
That sucks, I just installed pigtail today, $15 @ dealer. Fingers crossed. Not sure if you can just source the microswitch or not
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