On Sunday I experienced the stuck in park situation. Took the shifter cover off and have been manually moving the shifter pin to change gears. Brake lights are also out. Read a few threads around this issue, but am still not clear on cause of issue. Does this sound like a broken brake light switch? Shifter pin in center of pic.

 

sounds like it, you can test it to make sure by pulling the pigtail from switch & jump the connection with a piece of wire to see if it will release the pin, if switch is problem you can get the genuine part from autozone for $12 or $13, and it the upgrade version, it says (made in Malta) or similar on box, but on switch it says Made in Germany,

 

thanks for that. Actually found one on Amazon, for delivery tomorrow. Preciate the confirmation.

 

Yep the Auto Zone switch is the
Genuine LR Updated unit.

 

(apologies for the double post- dont even know how I did that) new brake switch installed, got the old style asthma-inhaler looking one. brake lights working, no shifting issues. mission accomplished!...