Relay click in column when moving from parked - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

EddieZ2 · 02-08-2017, 02:20 PM

Greetings all. I have a strange problem. 2013 automatic FRS. Here it is... Car is running. When I move the shift lever when parked slightly to the right to move from PARKED, there is an audible click. You can feel the snap in the steering column. I recently had the car in for the ignition lock recall and everything was fine until today. Any ideas ??? Steers fine. It's just when you want to get going that this relay snap occurs.

humfrz · 02-08-2017, 03:31 PM

I'm just guessing (since I don't have an AT) that the sound is coming from the mechanism that unlocks the steering wheel when the car is taken out of park .....

fer sure.

humfrz

EddieZ2 · 02-08-2017, 06:39 PM

OK..here goes. Put the key in ignition, do nothing, shift lever can be moved to the right but no click. First position on ignition, car not running, move lever to right solenoid fires. Turn on car, car running, steering wheel freely moves...move lever, "CLICK." Now I start feeling around the column and hold onto the ignition key... move the lever, "CLICK." Turn to acc position and move leve "CLICK" and you can really feel it on the key. This was just looked at for the interlock problem on the ignition. Just wondering how normal this is. I can't recall this "CLICK" before . Anybody pull their column apart that can give me an idea as to what this solenoid is doing. It doesn't lock the column that's for sure. ANy help is appreciated. Everything is working it's just one of those things....

Tcoat · 02-08-2017, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by EddieZ2

OK..here goes. Put the key in ignition, do nothing, shift lever can be moved to the right but no click. First position on ignition, car not running, move lever to right solenoid fires. Turn on car, car running, steering wheel freely moves...move lever, "CLICK." Now I start feeling around the column and hold onto the ignition key... move the lever, "CLICK." Turn to acc position and move leve "CLICK" and you can really feel it on the key. This was just looked at for the interlock problem on the ignition. Just wondering how normal this is. I can't recall this "CLICK" before . Anybody pull their column apart that can give me an idea as to what this solenoid is doing. It doesn't lock the column that's for sure. ANy help is appreciated. Everything is working it's just one of those things....

The interlock recall was just making sure some wires were plugged so it likely has nothing to do with this. Sure it hasn't always done it and you are just noticing in now since you were looking for something to have changed?

ChimpMania · 02-08-2017, 06:50 PM

my previous automatic did the same thing...you move the left to the right from park and it would make a clicking noise...i say it's normal

EddieZ2 · 02-08-2017, 07:41 PM

OK...I'll go with normal. I've been looking at diagrams and they're no real help. Toyota dealer was baffled. Chimp hit it though. Move the lever from left to right in Park...CLICK.
THANKS !

02-08-2017, 02:20 PM	#1
EddieZ2 Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Drives: 2013 FRS Location: NY Posts: 36 Thanks: 2 Thanked 18 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Relay click in column when moving from parked Greetings all. I have a strange problem. 2013 automatic FRS. Here it is... Car is running. When I move the shift lever when parked slightly to the right to move from PARKED, there is an audible click. You can feel the snap in the steering column. I recently had the car in for the ignition lock recall and everything was fine until today. Any ideas ??? Steers fine. It's just when you want to get going that this relay snap occurs.

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02-08-2017, 03:31 PM	#2
humfrz Senior Member Join Date: May 2013 Drives: 2013 FR-S, white, MT Location: Puyallup, WA Posts: 30,432 Thanks: 29,826 Thanked 32,845 Times in 16,844 Posts Mentioned: 715 Post(s) Tagged: 2 Thread(s)	I'm just guessing (since I don't have an AT) that the sound is coming from the mechanism that unlocks the steering wheel when the car is taken out of park ..... fer sure. humfrz

02-08-2017, 06:39 PM	#3
EddieZ2 Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Drives: 2013 FRS Location: NY Posts: 36 Thanks: 2 Thanked 18 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	OK..here goes. Put the key in ignition, do nothing, shift lever can be moved to the right but no click. First position on ignition, car not running, move lever to right solenoid fires. Turn on car, car running, steering wheel freely moves...move lever, "CLICK." Now I start feeling around the column and hold onto the ignition key... move the lever, "CLICK." Turn to acc position and move leve "CLICK" and you can really feel it on the key. This was just looked at for the interlock problem on the ignition. Just wondering how normal this is. I can't recall this "CLICK" before . Anybody pull their column apart that can give me an idea as to what this solenoid is doing. It doesn't lock the column that's for sure. ANy help is appreciated. Everything is working it's just one of those things....

02-08-2017, 06:50 PM	#5
ChimpMania Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Drives: 2014 WRB BRZ 6MT Location: Texas Posts: 43 Thanks: 3 Thanked 21 Times in 13 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	my previous automatic did the same thing...you move the left to the right from park and it would make a clicking noise...i say it's normal

02-08-2017, 07:41 PM	#6
EddieZ2 Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Drives: 2013 FRS Location: NY Posts: 36 Thanks: 2 Thanked 18 Times in 10 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	OK...I'll go with normal. I've been looking at diagrams and they're no real help. Toyota dealer was baffled. Chimp hit it though. Move the lever from left to right in Park...CLICK. THANKS !

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