Originally Posted by Soft Ride

Why do you need to swap the motor & trans ? High mileage problems or what?
I thought these engines easily go to 300K.
I only have 84 k miles, luckily. The trans, I might as well swap in new one instead of just a rebuild mainly to valve body as the ole P1811 code is not good etc.
Anyways, back to the locking situation, I have thrown another dose of Wd-40 in there and pin slides easily back and forth now. Hopefully it hangs in there and wont need replacement.
I also checked in the trunk today. The cable and tag was ok and works, but I used some double side Velcro to hold it up and away on trunk liner. If it does not hold, I may just drill a small hole in the tag and use a safety pin to hold it onto the liner, so there is no possible way for it to get caught on crap in trunk, and possibly open the fuel door.

Originally Posted by rjolly87

I am somewhat surprised you didn't utilize the manual release in the trunk. It would have at least saved you the humiliation of having a helper press the button.

On the subject, were you looking in the trunk with replacement in mind, any insight?