1994 Oldsmobile Achieva Owner's Manual - Page 71

Leaving Your VehicleWith the €ngine Running (AUTOMATIC TRANSAXLE MODELS ONLY) If you can, itmeans that theshift lever wasn't fully lockedinto P (Park). Torque Lock (AUTOMATIC TRANSAXLE) 2 Move the shift lever into P (Park) . position like this: Hold in the button the lever. on Push the lever all the way toward the front of your vehicle. 3 Move the ignition key to Lock. . 4. Remove the key and take it with you. If you can walk away from your vehicle with the ignition key in your hand, your vehicleis in P (Park). If you are parking on a hill and you don't shift your transaxle into P (Park) properly, the weight of the vehicle may put too much force on the parking pawl in thetransaxle. You may findit difficult to pull the shift lever out of P (Park). This is called "torque lock." To prevent torque lock, set theparking brake and then shift into-P (Park) properly before you leave driver's the seat. To find out how, see ShiftingInto P (Park) in theIndex. When you are ready to drive, move the shift lever out of P (Park) BEFORE you release the parking brake. If you haveto leave your vehicle with the engine running, be sure your vehicle If "torque lock" does occur, you may is in P (Park) and your parking brake is need to have another vehicle push yours firmly set before you leave After it. a little uphill to take some of the you've movedthe shift lever into the pressure from the transaxle, so you can P (Park) position, hold the regular pull the shift lever out of P (Park). brake pedal down. Then, see if you can move the shift lever away from (Park) P without first pushing the button. 69