It is the mechanism that prevents your vehicle to start out of gear, other than park or neutral.
Probably just an adjustment of the switch.
neutral safety switch
yes, the shift linkage has a switch to only allow the car to start in either park, or neutral. All automatic transmissions have a neutral safety switch. It is misadjusted or defective.
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 the mechanism that prevents your vehicle to start out of gear, other than park or neutral.
yes
Put it in gear and try to start the car. Then put it in either park or neutral and try to start it.Cranks in gear or doesn't crank in park/neutral: switch is bad.Doesn't crank in gear but cranks in park/neutral: switch is good.
The neutral safety switch prevents you from cranking the car in any other gear than park or neutral. Sometimes this will fail and you will have to manualy flip the switch. also there is a possibility that the car will only start in park and never start if it is in Netural.
DO YOU MEAN THE NEUTRAL SAFETY SWITCH?
If the car will start in neutral but not in park then you may have a bad transmission safety switch. That switch confirms that the car is in neutral or park before it allows the 'start' signal from the key switch to reach the solenoid.
Yes, this is possible.
you PROBABLY have a defective park/neutral safety switch