GEAR SELECTOR BUTTON.

[theroveringmember]

My selector button has to be depressed to get in & out of park, also to get into 1st. But it can be shifted through 2nd, drive, neutral, reverse & back to 2nd without depressing the button. Shouldn't I have to use it to get into N & R from D?

[Deleted]

The Use of the gear lever is covered in the Owners manual.

[theroveringmember]

Yes, I had a look yesterday & it does seem you should need the button to get to N & R from drive but I wanted some feedback on other peoples cars to see if this was a common situation with the selector. From memory (off road for 5 years) I seem to recall occasionally slipping into N by mistake while on the move so perhaps this has always been the case with our car. How about others?

[andymaslen]

Hi,

On my car (1972 coupe) you need to depress the button to go everywhere except D to 2 and back again.

[theroveringmember]

Must be something awry in our selector mechanism. Is a P6B selector the same. I've got one spare though it's from our BW65 car & thats a cable change.

[Phil Nottingham]

Two types of selectors gates (brush and SS slider plate) were actually fitted perhaps they were different - on mine you can go out of reverse and drive into neutral without pressing the button to assist rocking the car out of snow & mud. This is the normal arrangement.

I will check on other selectors although I suspect these although of later type will have the same arrangement from memory

[theroveringmember]

Thats a point. Our P5 is SS & the P6 is brush so probably not interchangable & I like the SS anyway. Yours sounds the same as mine though the handbook & later handbook supplement I've got say the button needs to be used for D into N & N into R as well as P & 1. It's not caused any problems in the past though so no worries.
Thanks!