Accord Stuck in PArk with Dead Battery

My 2000 Accord Automatic has a dead battery and seems to be stuck in park. I want to put it in neutral to move the car, then jump the battery.

But it seems to be stuck in Park. I put in the key and tried the key in various positions, but it won't come out of park.

Does the engine have to be running to take the car out of park ?

Thanks.

 

Can't speak for this particular car, but many use an electrically
powered solenoid to release the gear selector when you step on the
brake. Find a battery charger, move another car near it, or pull the
battery from another car and jump it. You don't have to have the engine
running, but you do need some power to the electrical system.

 

James:

That worked. I put my foot on the break and it went into neutral just
fine.

Thanks for the help. .................and yes..........I do feel like a
dope :>)

PAUL

 

Normally, yes.

But all cars that are like that also have an emergency mechanism to
allow the gear shifter to move without the car being on. It usually
involves prying a small cover off somewhere near your shifter and
inserting your car key, which then unlocks the shifter and you can put
it into neutral.

You can then take the key out of that little slot, put it into your
normal ignition lock, start the car, shift from neutral to drive (or
reverse), then drive the car to get it fixed.

 

This is the "Audi 1000 cure" (I think it was the 1000). People were
claiming that it would "suddenly accellerate". But the problem
couldn't be duplicated. Car & Driver did some tests and found that,
with the brake pedal fully depressed, the car would only crudgingly
move forward under full throttle. But they also found that for some
drivers, the accellerator was a little further to the left than
"normal" and suspected that people were stepping on the gas instead of
the brake. NHTSA "fixed" the problem by requiring that the brake be
depressed to move the car out of Park.

 

RTFM. most of them are online.

 

RTFM.. READ the F------- Owners manual



My 2000 Accord Automatic has a dead battery and seems to be stuck in park. I want to put it in neutral to move the car, then jump the battery.

But it seems to be stuck in Park. I put in the key and tried the key in various positions, but it won't come out of park.

Does the engine have to be running to take the car out of park ?

Thanks.

 

The Audi 5000, actually. The prime bad guy here was the television show
"60 Minutes", which produced a smear episode that contained much
misinformation, caused much alarm, and almost caused Audi to end up in
financial trouble. I lost a lot of respect for "60 Minutes" after the
"unintended acceleration" thing.

The Audi 5000 remained on the market after the fiasco, renamed the Audi
100 in an effort to recover consumer confidence.

Car and Driver's tests revealed that people who were looking over their
shoulders, or those with little experience with a particular model or
who drove little, had a tendency to misplace their feet, even in cars
with plenty of clearance between brake and gas.

Furthermore, and even more significantly, Car and Driver also discovered
that once the wrong pedal was pressed and the car began to accelerate,
people had a tendency to believe that their foot was actually on the
brake, and they would press the pedal HARDER, apparently thinking they
weren't stepping on the brake firmly enough. This was how some of those
cars were able to smash through garage walls and end up in swimming
pools.

Automakers began installing those locks well before any legislation was
talked about, this out of fear of tort. Even now I'm not so sure
those locks are actually required by law.

Several governments (including the NHTSA) plus some journalistic outlets
all did extensive testing at the time and discovered that the problem
was simple driver error; there was nothing wrong with any of the cars.
The problem centered primarily around elderly or female drivers, plus
those who drove little and were relatively inexperienced or out of
practice. All automakers and many models were represented in the
statistics, with Audi's 5000 not being overrepresented.

 

Honda Newsgroup:

Alan G. locked his keys in his car the other day.

He had to find a coat hanger to get his family out of the car.

RTFM up yours Alan.



RTFM.. READ the F------- Owners manual



My 2000 Accord Automatic has a dead battery and seems to be stuck in park.
I want to put it in neutral to move the car, then jump the battery.

But it seems to be stuck in Park. I put in the key and tried the key in
various positions, but it won't come out of park.

Does the engine have to be running to take the car out of park ?

Thanks.

 

Okay, thanks for the correction.

Yes, "60 Minutes" (which I think referes to the amount of time they
"research" their reports) did its usual hatchet job.

Okay, I'll go with that.

I don't remember that report, but I do remember it being listed as
"driver error" with no discernable mechanical defect.

Of course, those of us who drive (well, drove) standards are
apparently intelligent enough not to need a crutch like that.