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Originally Posted by my123ca
85 300D - Car would start in run position and starter would continue running even with the engine running. Broken steering lock, tumbler, ignition switch or all of the above? Does part# 1264620730 include everything including key and ignition switch?
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If you have an automatic transmission your neutral safety switch is supposed to prevent you from starting in anything but neutral or park. However, if your Shifter Bushings are worn you sometimes can start in other gears or if the neutral safety swith has been bypassed or is not lined up correctly (there is a hole in the transmission housing and one that is in the neutral safety switch to allow you to insert a properly sized drill bit so that you can line up the neutral safety switch properly).
If some sort of wear inside of the neutral safety switch can allow you to start in other gears I have not read that in any of the threads or posts I have read.
The Key and Tumbler are seperate and do not come with the Steering Colum Lock Assembly.
The part you are speaking of comes with the Ignition Switch (which is actually at the bottom of the Steering Colum Lock), a Vacuum Shutoff Switch (the one that screws onto the Steering Colum Lock not the one on the Fuel Injection Pump) and the Steering Colum Lock (incorperated into the aluminum housing) itself.
I got mine from an online Mercedes Dealer that sold the parts on the internet but it is no longer around. Anyway, the steering colum lock assembly was made in France by Neiman.
I could have saves a little money by getting a Valeo Steering Colum Lock Asembly because Neiman/Valeo are different parts of the same company.
Beware of only shopping by the price because Myele also sells the Steering Colum lock without the new Vacuum Switch or Ignition Switch as well as the complete assembly.
Random info.
Please note that these days calling the Key and Lock Tumbler the Ignition Switch is jargon. On my 1953 Chevy Pickup Truck the Key the Lock Tumbler and the Ignition Switch are all one assembly. So that could be rightfully called the Ignition Switch.
I am not sure after what point in time but sometime when they started incoperating Steering Colum Locks into Cars the Ignition Switch got relocated from the Key and the Lock Tumbler. On My 1986 and 1992 Chevies the Ignition Switch is on the bottom top of the Steering Colum about 2+ feet from the Steering Colum Lock and the Lock Tumbler.