2012 Tahoe transmission shifter

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My 2012 Tahoe after pulling into a parking space, wouldn’t shift into park, or any other gear for that matter. Was stuck in drive. Shift lever was very loose and nothing registered on instrument cluster. I set emergency brake and turned off engine. Unable to restart since I couldn’t put into PARK. Had to get it towed to dealership. No word from them on what has failed,, yet. Any idea what could have happened?
 
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Thank you! I was afraid it was a transmission failure. I’ll wait for dealer results!
 
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Transmission shift cable broke. Comes with 2 cables to replace, one exterior and one interior joined together. Replaced by dealer for $384, bargain as far as I’m concerned!
 

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Transmission shift cable broke. Comes with 2 cables to replace, one exterior and one interior joined together. Replaced by dealer for $384, bargain as far as I’m concerned!

Had a big rig blow a tire right in front of me once, took the "gator" down the center between the wheels and thought, whew! that was close. Couple hours later went to pull into a rest stop and the shifter just flopped around and couldn't get her out of gear. Set the parking brake, crawled under and manually shifted into park. Had to crawl under a few more times to get it out of the parking space and pointed towards the highway again and then replaced the cable the next day. Happened again six months later!
 
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Interesting!! That happened to me before the failure too, With a guy’s trailer that blew a tire in front of me and thought nothing of it until you mentioned your experience.
 
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There isn't one for the tranny from the factory that I know of. It would have to be an aftermarket/custom part I'm guessing.

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