Re: Paralyzed Push Buttons

I think that Fiat-Chrysler blew it with that damn shifter they put with the 8 speed. It's a floor shifter that you push the button in to move the lever but it's electronic, but feels like it's not, and it always goes back to center....test one out...you will hate it. I'm forever putting it in the wrong gear, missing reverse, Drive, putting it in Neutral or Low or Park. Everybody that drives my car hates the shifter, we are working on a way to modify it with the 5 speed gear shifter or the dial that is in the 200 or Durangos. A push button panel would be an option, but the only one I can think of is ugly....out of an RTS transit bus. It would do it...but it's really ugly.

Eric Sturgis

Tacoma, WA

1962 Chrysler Newport 2 door HT in Coral Gray

2014 Chrysler 300 3.6L in Jazz Blue

2014 Dodge Charger R/T 5.7L (ya it's a HEMI) in Header Orange

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Gary H. <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I had a similar experience with a younger fellow who had to drive a PB Mopar to road test it for state safety inspection. He had no idea what to do when he sat in the Mopar. LOL

That unfamiliarity may change as some of the new cars e.g., Lincoln, now offer pushbutton transmissions.

Fiat-Chrysler blew it big time by putting a rotary dial transmission shifter in the new 200 instead of reviving the Chrysler pushbutton transmission heritage.

Thanks,
Gary H.

> -------Original Message-------

> Even with the finicky adjustment you gotta love these pushbuttons. I took
> my 63 to a glass shop to have a new windshield installed I was going to
> leave it for the day. I pulled it in to the service bay and asked if
> anyone new how to operate a pushbutton transmission so they could move it
> when they were done. None of the guys working there were more than 35 - 40
> years old and they all just kind of looked at each other. So I started to
> explain and the mgr. said "that's OK we'll just leave it here till you come
> back". Loved it.
>
>
> Paul L.

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