Q: It happened a few time and a message will come up saying shift to P I don't know what that means.

asked by on February 19, 2017

I have a Chrysler 200 2015 an when I drive it will tell me a message saying shift to P and it had don't this to me about a few times now.

My car has 44680 miles.

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