Ford Falcon BA interior automatic gear/mode selector failure - bodgy fix to get you home
The Ford Falcon BA is a pretty decent car but they're getting to the age now where various bits of plastic are breaking and one of the more common failures is the bushings in the gear selector cable ends, both on the gearbox itself ( easy enough to fix, exposed underneath the car, $25 kit fix ) and a few years later the bushing on the other end of the cable which is tied to the actual mode selector.
Replacing the interior/center-console end requires a lot of car interior disassembly work and not something you can really do on the road side, however if you have a stick, wedge, or pretty much anything, you only need to pull off the plastic bezel around the selector assembly and jam it between the sheathed cable and the driver's side wall of the center console ( might take some trying to get the cable ring back on the selector pin ).
Many thanks to the people who contributed on last night's live-stream to help me get the car home (I'll still be having to spend the $ to get it fixed properly! )