Well, to keep the story short: key broke off in tumbler, locksmith could not extract key and broke his drill trying to drill out the center, wheel in locked position but radio comes on, I read exhaustedly all previous posts and advice, tried drilling center myself, tried putting in bent hanger to release the tumbler, even tried drilling new holes in different positions to put in hanger tool to release tumbler. No luck, and no money to tow to my usual shop and pay four hours for them to remove and put on a new tumbler (6-700 bucks). So it is DIY time. I do have a dremel with assorted bits, will that be enough to saw the tumbler apart? and where should I cut it along the tumbler? What happens then? I have a 93 300e 2.8 the mechanism is a tumbler surrounded by a black cylinder and some sort of space age steel (psycho cobalt bit ((8 of them!!)) eating steel) on the face plate with the key slot. I already have the dash apart but seek experienced advice before the next step.
Thanks for anything,
Desperate,
Brooke