How do you say, "please place your car in park."

Question

Need to make a sign to let our hispanic customers know to put their car into the park (P) position, not neutral.

Hmm. Where is Park (P) on my manual transmission? - 0074b507, Sep 28, 2011

I would rather say to engage the parking brake - espanol5555, Sep 28, 2011

Answer 1

It's a well known fact that only old ladies and wimps drive automatic transmissions, so what kind of statement are you trying to say about your hispanic customers?

Park (P)?? Is that only used on Japanese made cars or those that meet California standards?

From a Die hard stick shift driver.

put car in park Spanish

puse la palanca de cambios en la posición de estacionar

puse? Must be imperative here. - Deanski, Sep 29, 2011

jajajajaja they say your less likely to have your car stolen if you use a stick shift -- because many people can't drive one. :) - espanol5555, Sep 29, 2011

Answer 2

I just wanted to add that we have a drive thru and we need our customers to put their car in park. We have an English sign that says. "place car in park." Some of our hispanic customers can't read English so we wanted to post it in Spanish. Thanks to those who have answered my question so far.

Aha ! that helps. - pacofinkler, Sep 28, 2011

Answer 3

Manual transmissions usually dont have park -- you put it into neutral or first gear and engage parking brake.

Answer 4

You could say something like "por favor, asegúrense usar el freno de estacionamiento" which means "please be sure to use the parking break." At least I believe so.

Shouldn't that be brake in English. My apologies if that is an American spelling. - MaryMcc, Sep 28, 2011

Answer 5

I just made this one up. Hope it works in Spanish.

               Al aparcar

Pon la caja de cambios automático en posición P