I have seen something like this covered before, but my issue seems a bit different.
Periodically, like once every 2 or 3 months, for no apparent reason, after turning the rig off, and then I get back in, turn it on, and it's stuck in park, and a transmission fault problem pops up. First time I just waited about 30 minutes started back up and everything went away and rig ran like normal.

The same thing happened about a month ago--actually called a tow truck, but before they got there, after about an hour, I started it up, and the fault went away, and it shifted fine. All good until yesterday.

I was about an hour out in the country-Idaho-middle of nowhere. Stopped for 15 minutes, got back in, and the fault pops up; it's stuck in park. I had seen a way (google) to manually bypass, which I was able to do (removed the rear right tray by shifter stuck my finger under towards the front almost as far as I could go--with the engine on pressed and shifted into N) it worked was able to shift into N but this time I ended up having to drive home with the gear stuck in low. I stopped off-on--no difference-and fault still on. Got home pulled into the garage waited 2 hours turned it on-fault gone. I drove it to see if it would shift—worked like normal. So from what I've been able to find out--probably the shift solenoid. I know I know-need to run the codes. Just wondering what the cost might be to replace (I'm not a mechanic), and if, from anyone else's experience, that sounds like what the problem might be. thanks

 

Could be a faulty brake switch. Need codes.

 

Thanks! for the reply!! I'll probably take it in next week! Just curious-Would a faulty brake switch show any other symptoms?

 

Wont be solenoinds, park/neutral/reverse are mechanically selected via the shifter rod so i'd be checking for codes and looking at the shifter linkage.

 

Thanks--I'll report back once it's figured out!!

 

It has been almost a month since my LR3 got stuck in park. Two hours after resting it was fine-no codes—back to normal. And no--I didn't take it in to read the codes. It has been fine for the last month without any codes or issues. I'm inclined to think that it must be the shift linkage that is the problem if the lingage is manual. Otherwise if it was the brake module or shift solenoid wouldn't it have shown again by now??