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Originally Posted by ericgr
Steve mentioned something about the plate being loose. Is this something you can tell just by sitting in the car, or do you have to remove the tumbler to tell? My feeling on this is that if I'm going to get that tumbler out of there, I'm going to go ahead and replace it anyway for the $60 bucks for a new one. But if there were a way to diagnose externally of course I'd do that first. The gist from your post and others is that it's guesswork in the end (?)
That being the case, proactive changing of this thing sounds like a good idea. My car has 125,000 miles on it. It was the first time it ever did that to me (lockup like that) and it was scary. I was reasonable sure there for a bit that we were absolutely stuck wherever we were.
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In hindsight, the ignition tumbler on my car was extremely loose when I bought the car. I lived with it for awhile not thinking any thing of it. I took a closer look at it when I would get an occassional SRS light. Someone mentioned that sometimes a loose ignition cylinder might cause it. I checked the archives and read the horror stories so I got right on it. When I took the tumbler out, it came out in two pieces, the front keyhole plate and the rest of the tumbler. So in my case the sloppy looseness of the ignition was indication of pending disaster.
glenmore
1991 300CE
1990 LS400