Been looking at Acura parts fiche trying to find this tiny little plug piece that goes on the front console at top left of my automatic gear selector part. When vehical is in park it's just to the left of shifter. All I have is a hole no little cover. It's about 3/8" wide by 1/2" long. Parts fiche is only showing me a breakdown of console for manual trans. Any help finding me a part number would be great. It may only be sold with the whole cover piece and not alone, and am willing to buy it but can't find the one for the automatic.

 

 

the little plug is directly west...or left of the shifter when in park

 

#13 in the below link

http://www.oemacuraparts.com/parts-c...s/select-lever

 

thanks man you are awesome. Felt like I had searched every page...guess not lol

 

I've always wondered what that little plug was for...

 

Had that same piece missing when I bought my TL also. Replaced a few interior pieces at the dealer.

 

If the car won't start/you don't have a key and you need to put it in neutral or any other gear, you remove that little cover and put a screwdriver or any other pointy object in there

And it will allow you to move the shifter without holding the brake pedal or turning the key.

 

^This. It's the park lock override.

 

I'm surprised more ppl don't know about this. Every car I've seen has one.

 

hmm just learned something new today.

 

 

I didn't know what that thing was either, thanks!

 

All cars nowadays have them since we've had to have our foot on the brake to take a car out of park. Older cars that didn't have this "safety feature" didn't have to have it.

 

Yeah I don't remember seeing a car without the shift lock override. It comes in handy actually; I've had to use it several times when buying/towing cars that don't run.