2010 Prius, asks to put in Park, transmission shakes in neutral/park

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  1. Aurimas

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    Hello, so I got this problem out of nowhere. After work, I got into the car, started it up and it started shaking like crazy, it was coming from beneath the car (not the front, so probably not the engines fault). I shifted to drive and car asked to shift back to park and exclamation point came up so I didn't drive the car. Another day I drove it to my garage, again, it started shaking, but now not in park, but in neutral and in drive. When I was driving, shaking disappeared for ~ 1 minute, but then it came back up. About 1 year ago, something similar has happened, but I just shifted to drive and it disappeared. Any ideas what could be wrong with it? Thank You.
     
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    Just shaking, or was there severe knocking/rattling sound as well?



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    welcome!

    how many miles/km on her?
     
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    It sounds like two pieces knocking together, but when I disassambled gearbox, everything looked fine, my friend had another gearbox and flywheel, I installed that, but same problem exist. It has around 160k km.
     
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    Disassembled gearbox? You mean you disassembled the gearbox when or after all this was going on, or what?

    Can't seem to get ya
     
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    I disassembled it now, when this happened, but everything looked good.
     
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    They may be using some translation so gearbox may mean transaxle?
     
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    Maybe OP just doesn't know it's a transaxle. I didn't until I got here and started to read and learn.

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    True too.
    I know some non-English speakers use some translation software to communicate here in English. I have seen them apologize in advance for any poor grammar.
     
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    Do you have a way to read the codes?

    Removing and replacing parts without reading the codes is an expensive endeavor;).

    It could be something as simple as a loose connection, or something worse.

    But the codes will guide the next steps:).

    Keep us posted (y).
     
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    2 days ago my friend connected his computer to check the codes, but it showed nothing, so I did some research on my own (that's why I installed new gearbox and flywheel (my friend had it lying around so it cost nothing for me)), today we connected computer again and it showed that the engine or spark plugs are bad, as far as I know spark plugs were never changed in 160000km so I'm really confident that spark plug/plugs are causing this and when car asked me to put it in park I forgot that I need to close the door (STUPID ME). I'll give you an update on monday, I'll take a look at the engine.

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