Automatic Transmission Gear Indicator problems of the 2007 Saturn Aura

2007 Saturn Aura , 79,000miles. I am an owner of a gm vehicle as well as an employee of gm. Sunday ,July 10, 2011. Drove car for about a half hour returned home and stopped in drive way. Placed vehicle in park , turned off ignition , removed key and released brake. Car begins to roll down hill. Depress brake to stop car. Checked that prndl was in park, reinserted key to operate gear selector. Vehicle would not go into park. Then set emergency brake and looked under hood. Cable connected to selector on top of transmission is broken and will not operate gear selector. The car is in drive or reverse and does not start. Even after manually moving selector forward park will not be selected.

The contact owns a 2007 Saturn Aura. The contact stated that when the vehicle was turned off, parked and the key was removed from the ignition, he was still able to erroneously move the gear shifter from park. The contact stated that the vehicle had never rolled away because he constantly used the emergency parking brake. The contact was told by the auto parts store there was a NHTSA recall campaign id number: 12v4600000 (power train: automatic transmission: gear position indication (prndl) for the transmission shift cable, but when they spoke with the manufacturer, they were told their vehicle was not included in the recall. The failure mileage was unknown, but the current mileage was 55,000.

It appears that the 2007 Saturn Aura does not meet fmvss 102 section 3. 1. 4 relating to transmission shift lever positions identification. My Aura does not indicate which gear is selected. There prndil lettering is backlit but there is no identification of which gear the transmission is currently in (I. E. There is no pointer/light highlighting 'd' when in drive).