A bad neutral safety switch generally causes one of two problems. Either the car can start in any gear, creating a safety hazard, or it will not start at all.
They are dark purple. It goes from the ignition switch to the neutral safety switch to the starter.
The safety switch is located on the transmission in the back of the caron the drivers side. The shifter cable goes to it along with some wires.
Start by checking the neutral safety switch. This is a switch that won't let the vehicle start if you have it in gear. If the switch goes bad it gives the symptom of not starting in park.
It is on top of the transmission where the gear shift cable goes into the housing of the transaxle.
When the neutral wire goes to the switch
Check to see if the shifter is not all the way into park. If it is Your neutral safety switch my be inoperative. The remote goes through the body control module to the neutral safety switch. Good luck!
The neutral safety switch is located on the bottom of the transmission on the front. Held by two 10mm bolts and a long metal shaft that goes through it and the bottom and then into the transmission. It is connected by a large wire harness on the top of the part itself and can simply be plugged in.
The battery cable on the positive side goes to the starter. The purple wire goes from the ignition switch to the neutral safety switch then down to the starter. On the solenoid the is a "R" and that is where the wire from the coil goes. The "R" means resistor
the switch is usually located in the tranny near where the shift linkage goes into the tranny
If it has the Mitsubishi 3L engine, it is under the air cleaner where the shifter goes into the transmission. I don't know about the other engines.
This is a complicated switch to replace. My best advice it to pay an auto shop to do it, they will charge about $50. Its complicated because the switch goes onto the transmission, so there's a lot of panels to remove and put back.
if automatic its on right center line of tranny. see where shift cable goes. see object with wires. bingo.