Automatic transmission hard parking engage and disengage
 

As the title says,
When shifting into P the car makes a really loud CLUNK noise.this is not the usual pin engagement from the auto transmissions.
Same thing happens when disengaging from P.
This issue only happens sometimes, 40% consistency.

This did not happen before.

Car has 55k km on it.

Thoughts ladies and gents?

Try making sure you are at a complete stop with your foot on the brake, and set the parking brake. Shift into P and see if it still clunks.
Are you parking on an incline by chance?

uhhhh, your phrasing makes it sound like you are still moving and then slamming into P which would makes all sorts of funky noises.

Read your owner's manual before you kill your car.

Read the whole thing carefully.

Ah. Apologies. It seems I have caused confusion and thought of retardation aimed in my general direction

The car is at a complete stop when shifting into P.
The noise happens when the P engages.
The release of the foot brake then causes the residual movement of the car which engages the parking pin on the transmission (which is the the normal thing on autos).

This happens on both incline and flat.

It's happened to me a handful of times. Clunks for no reason, but I park on a slight slight incline at home, not sure if that contributes to it...

normal bro

70k km here

What I do:

Car stopped with foot on brake

Set handbrake

Put a/t in neutral

Take foot off foot brake-- car will move slightly if you are on an incline as its position is determined by the handbrake

Move lever to P position. There is now no load on the parking pin

Takes only a couple of seconds after it becomes habit

^^^this for all automatic transmissions.

Guarantees zero stress on the locking pawls no matter how shitty the design.

I will add, from the factory, the hand brake is adjusted like shit on every single 13 MY I've seen. Dunno if they ever got better but it's pathetic. I had the wheels off and adjusted the drums within the first week. 2 clicks and it's locked up.

hmmm going to try this tomorrow. Going to be difficult to change habit lol

I do this every single time too.


P will be hard to disengage when the fluid level is off too.

Trying this for the next few days. Amazing. Tyvm.

Fluid might be an issue. Will look at when that needs to be serviced.

Thnx :))

This is what I was trying to type, just because P says "Park" doesn't mean you should ignore the parking brake

Or hand brake... That's what I did with my allroad which the clunk was pretty brutal leaving park.
I never needed to put in neutral though with the allroad though.


Edit: premature post, didn't finish reading. Excuse me...
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