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Originally Posted by JimFreeh
You need to address this, and quickly.
Once the tumbler hangs up, replacement gets exponentially harder.
Jim
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Exponentially, as in "need nuclear weapons to get the $%^&* tumbler set out of the ignition!" Tonight, fingers still crossed, I'm expecting to take five (5) whole minutes in the MB dealers parking lot to pull my dodgy tumbler set and install the "brand new with a key tumbler" set. With an extra key, it was $110. I also got the black plastic "escutcheon" that surrounds the ignition switch since when I took mine out to maximize my access to the steel collar, the 22-year old piece of plastic broke.
Once the tumbler set freezes and won't turn, it's a minimum of a four hour job to drop the steering wheel down to get at the 1/8" thick hardened steel collar protecting the tumblers and cut it off with a grinder. Might be a six hour job, depending on the skill of the mechanic and costs around $600 to do it.
Is that enough incentive to do it NOW?? :-)