Installing new ignition
07-25-2011, 01:11 PM
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Installing new ignition
Over the weekend I was hanging out with some friends at a meet with about 20 different cars. We all were just hanging out in a parking lot when some guys girlfriend came flying into the lot with her friends, she jumped out of the car, started screaming at him in front of everyone (guess he was cheating on her and she found out), she then grabbed his keys, got into his car, put the key in the ignition, and snapped it off inside. Then got out, flipped him off, jumped in the car with her friends and they took off almost hitting him.
It was pretty funny but after hearing what she did it made me wonder what happens in that situation. He was saying it was his only key to the car (how do you not have a spare????) and he had to call a tow truck to come and get the car. So in a situation like that, do you have to have to take the car to a body shop or dealer and have them replace the ignition switch with a brand new one, and give you a new set of keys?
It was pretty funny but after hearing what she did it made me wonder what happens in that situation. He was saying it was his only key to the car (how do you not have a spare????) and he had to call a tow truck to come and get the car. So in a situation like that, do you have to have to take the car to a body shop or dealer and have them replace the ignition switch with a brand new one, and give you a new set of keys?
07-25-2011, 06:53 PM
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A good lock man might be able to dig the key out. Otherwise it's likely a new switch.
Way to pick 'em, boyfriend. Good job finding the CRAZIEST PSYCHOB!TCH out there. Do the gene pool a favor and get a vasectomy?
Way to pick 'em, boyfriend. Good job finding the CRAZIEST PSYCHOB!TCH out there. Do the gene pool a favor and get a vasectomy?
07-25-2011, 07:14 PM
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I changed that out on a ford escort once, it meant taking everything off the wheel (wheel, airbag, turn signal thing, etc), then using a punch to turn the bolts (they were round from the factory). You couldn't just get the lock portion for the year I was working with, or I couldn't find one anyway..
07-25-2011, 11:00 PM
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Go ghetto-style and get an ignition switch from Advance Auto, and cut/splice the wires and relocate the switch to the dash!
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08-28-2011, 01:57 PM
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I changed that out on a ford escort once, it meant taking everything off the wheel (wheel, airbag, turn signal thing, etc), then using a punch to turn the bolts (they were round from the factory). You couldn't just get the lock portion for the year I was working with, or I couldn't find one anyway..
08-28-2011, 09:04 PM
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Haha, I don't know if they changed it, but in the USA, some manufacturers had not only a master key for all their cars, they only made 5 or 6 different keys for all the cars . . . so you had like 15% chance of having the same key as the car in the next parking slip!