Thebadbox

Saturday night I get to my G/f house park the car and turned the key to lock and it wouldnt lock. The key would not come out. Has anyone experienced this?

Baine

Does it have an automatic transmission? If so it might not be out of gear and in park all the way.

Thebadbox

its an auto and its in park but the key will not over to lock so I can get the key out. As it stands now the key will not come out of the ignition.

Storm13

I had something similar happen a couple times. If it's the same thing that happened to me, just turn the steering wheel a bit and then try to turn the key. Sometimes if the steering wheel is in just the wrong spot, the key won't turn and if I move it a bit (one way or the other) it frees it up. Hope this works for you.

Thebadbox

I dont know why it did it. Ive tried moving the steering wheel nothing seems to work.

Scott17

Have you done anything under the center console? There is a cable that goes from the shifter to the lock cylinder to allow the ignition to go into lock when the shifter is in park. If you take the console out, lookon the left side of the shifter for the cable. There is an adjuster a few inches forward of the shifter. Adjust it and make sure nothing is touching or interfering with the adjuster.

Thebadbox

I took it to toyota its the shift interlock cable between the shift box and the ignition. Bryan in service said it is covered completely under warranty. Just wanted to post up and let everyone there is an issue with it evidently. They call it "shift interlock cable malfunction".

Scott17