One problem related to automatic transmission park/neutral start switch has been reported for the 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt based on all problems reported for the 2005 Cobalt.
Car would not start and and after several attempts reverse lights came on. Problem was determined to be a broken shifter cable. Shifter cable came off shift control, cauisng the neatral switch to to block the starting .