Thanks for all the help on this guys, but I've finally solved the problem. Pulled out the shifter cover and low and behold, the bulb socket is totally missing. Evidently the previous owner or one of the mechanics who did some work on the car removed it. Took me a while to figure this out because there are two bulb-like things attached to a wire inside the shifter box. After much figuring on how my two loose wires could attach to this single wire with a bulb on each end, I finally figured out it is a fiber optic cable that is supposed to carry the light provided by the light bulb in the socket that is missing. Should be fairly easy to fix now I know that I need to go to my dealer and get the missing socket and bulb



George