Shifter sticks in reverse!

Gen 3 Prius shifters are cheap on eBay and can be had for less than $50 delivered. The best ones are sold by LKQ with free UPS shipping.

It takes no more than 20 minutes to pull out the old one and to put in a new one. Everything snaps out and back in including two electrical connector blocks. The shifter is held on by three 12mm hex flange nuts. A 3/8 ratchet, an extension and a 12mm socket are all the tools you need.

 

^ That.

 

Additionally, the shifter itself is mechanically pretty simple and probably not difficult to make unsticky.

 

IWD the 40 out of mine and never look back I'd agend to that would stick in all positions it was coffee

 

how many miles on her?

 

We went thru this with someone else in a Gen2 and after dozens of comments from many helpful people it turned out the person with the problem forgot to mention that they had all their covid masks hanging from the shifter and that was the problem. Duh! So just in case, that's worth mentioning. You don't want to "decorate" your shifter with clutter. That being said, replacing your shifter with a used one from a local wrecking yard is the most ideal DIY way because you can usually pull the part yourself, which gives you a chance to practice on how to remove it without worrying about damaging your own console.

 

Me, I'd take it out and take it apart. I think the lube in there is something other than WD40 ... a white grease, if I remember right. And probably just a tiny bit of cleaning and redistributing the grease would do the trick.

But that's me.

 

You're very welcome. I've removed and reinstalled them many times. Takes no more than 15-20 minutes. There is no need to disconnect the 12 volt battery. Just don't start the car by putting it into the ready mode.

 

And even if you do forget and turn the car on ... so you'll get a trouble code about weird shift position input. Yawn.

 

It is white grease mine was old white grease and coffee I just sprayed the you know what out of it with WD or whatever I had in my hand and that loosened it right up now I can slap it all around and it doesn't do anything but return to center pretty much so I left it and I do see they practically fall out in your hand every one of these cars I take apart but I don't ever need the shifter if anything I might need to shift leave or cover the gold part or the tulip

 

Yep I just squirt into sides with panel off exposing mech. It stays installed . Spray move it around quickly . In my case sprayed water first because twas coffee spilled sprayed 8n they're. Then WD.

 

So many people posting don't understand that WD-40 is NOT a lubricant, it's a solvent! They aren't using it correctly & suck at properly lubing stuff!

"WD-40 isn't actually a true lubricant. WD stands for "water displacing" and its main use is as a solvent or rust dissolver. The lubricant-like properties of WD-40 come not from the substance itself, but from dissolving components. And the effect doesn't last. WD-40 can be a good substance to start with — it can help clean up rust or other grime. But depending on what you're working with, you should probably follow up WD-40 with use of a true lubricant such as one based on silicone, grease, Teflon, or graphite." When Should I Not Use WD-40?

 

It's also a great cleaner so it cuts that coffee and grease and all that crap out of there and then it's plastic on plastic even sounds different I don't use it that much so you know I mean really I'll take the plastic on plastic sound any day and the parts are in abundance and take 12 minutes to change so no big deal I want to be able to slap it around and it go click click clack clack