Yes and it is electrically controlled. Apply a charger or jumper battery and you can get it out of park.
Backup light switches are different between automatic and manual transmission bmws. If you have the automatic the switch is under the shifter. Disconnect the battery and remove the shifter boot. Unplug the switch wires and replace the switch and reconnect the wires and battery. If you have a manual transmission the switch is on the passenger side of the transmission above the Allen type filler plug. Disconnect the battery, unplug the wires and unscrew the switch with a 19mm wrench. Screw in the new one an torque it down then reconnect the wires and the battery.
You didn't state weather it was an Automatic or Manual transmission. Well any way they are both on the transmission. Manual transmission has a separate switch for the backup lights the automatic is built into the neutral safety switch on the transmission. Automatic switch is about $50.00. Manual switch is about $10.00. Hope you have a manual it is a lot cheaper.
The selector lever.
automatic transmission
The neutral safety switch on a 95 ford contour is on the drivers side of the transmission. It is a black box where the shift linkage connects.
If it has an automatic transmission, I'd check the neutral safety switch. It should be acivated by the shift leaver or the linkage. If it has a standard transmission, I would check the safety switch activated by the clutch pedal.
It is on the transducer finagler battery pole lever.
Why is the shifter on Manuel transmission so wobbelie
The neutral start switch mounted on your automatic transmission also serves as the back up lamp switch.
The switch for the backup light switch for an automatic transmission is located on the transmission where the shifting cable enters the transmission (The side of the transmission closest to the radiator),how about for the manual trans mission models?
It is combined with the neutral safety switch and mounts to the transmission where the shifter linkage is attached.
Standard or automatic transmission??? In most vehicle situations the switch unscrews out of the likage side of the transmission.