Originally Posted by glenmore

What happened to your tumbler was probably what was in store for me had I not changed mine out. It was very loose like yours. It came out in 2 pieces, the collar and the tumbler part with all the springs and pins. It is this collar part, where the key goes in, that is hardened steel and the tough part to get past for obvious ant-theft reasons. The rest is an aluminum casting with a bunch of slots cut into it for the brass pins and springs. The design fault is that the slots by the collar leave very little continuous metal. I'm amazed that they last as long as they do.

Now that you have the generic, you can see how the wire tool works in depressing that spring clip. Hope you can get that key to position 1!

glenmore
1991 300CE
2000 C280