I have noticed in the past few days that if I drive the car for more than an hour or so the gear lever becomes extremely stiff to move between D, N, and R. At time it does not even fit into R from D even though the lever is on R.

I had previously have a recall on the lever which was changed by the dealer? could this be the same issue again as previously the issue was that the Lever did not recognize it was in P after driving over an hour. However the case this time is the stiffness of the lever only