Tiptronic Stiff Shift - Flashing D or P - Road Salt

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I had a problem that seems to be very common of the gear shift being very stiff and not going into P or D or poping out of drive

Tried fixing the cable took all the dash apart to mess with the shifter.

After a lot of messing I found it was the pivot on the metal part that the cable connects to on the gearbox

The pivot is on the LHS of the back of the gearbox - the cable from the stick connects to the top of the pivot with a big rubber ring. A little lower down is a bar that connects forward to the box selector

Below this is the pivot for this assembly held on by a circlip - Mine had seized pretty much solid and needed serious hammering to get off.

What it appears - and why there is limited information on this - is if your roads are salted the pivot rusts - swells and clamps the plastic bushes to the pivot bar seizing.

Drill the plastic hole back up with a 10-10.5mm drill - and there you go perfect gear shifting again.