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Title: Ignition switch help please
Post by: LFF64 on 05 April 2008, 18:32:06
Last night disaster struck , the ignition switch packed up on my car . The key went in ok the lights all came on, on the dash  but the key had no spring back from engine start position . So I knew the contact block had failed .  Called out the AA but they could only send out an agent not a proper patrol  >:( When he eventualy turned up nearly two hours later I told him what the problem was and how to  get around it and that I just could not get the thing apart . I could not remember  how to get the terminal block off the back of the switch . I explained it again to him and told him what I needed . only to be told I was wrong and that the wiring was part of the switch and it all had to be removed from up under the dash  :o HE TOLD ME HE USED TO WORK FOR VX so he knew what he was talking about  ::) any after persuding him I knew what  I
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: LFF64 on 05 April 2008, 18:38:21
was doing I  borrowed a big screw driver and removed the damged contact block   ;) I managed to get the car going by hot wiring it something he could not do  :o and get the car home . question is anyone any idea how much the contact block part of the switch costs and is it worth trying one from the scrap yard I would assume most of the vx cars would be similar if not the same
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 April 2008, 18:40:38
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Last night disaster struck , the ignition switch packed up on my car . The key went in ok the lights all came on, on the dash  but the key had no spring back from engine start position . So I knew the contact block had failed .  Called out the AA but they could only send out an agent not a proper patrol  >:( When he eventualy turned up nearly two hours later I told him what the problem was and how to  get around it and that I just could not get the thing apart . I could not remember  how to get the terminal block off the back of the switch . I explained it again to him and told him what I needed . only to be told I was wrong and that the wiring was part of the switch and it all had to be removed from up under the dash  :o HE TOLD ME HE USED TO WORK FOR VX so he knew what he was talking about  ::) any after persuding him I knew what  I
 


Its not easy, you have to insert a screwdriver into the centre of the terminal block to release a catch that allows it to be removed.
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: LFF64 on 05 April 2008, 18:46:08
Sorry it is off now but need a new contact block have you any idea how much they are
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 April 2008, 18:48:53
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Sorry it is off now but need a new contact block have you any idea how much they are


Not as much as you would think, under 20 quid from memory.
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 05 April 2008, 18:50:25
Or here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180204292020&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RSCKCK_Pr4_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=370039577905&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=active_view_item&usedrule1=StoreCatToStoreCat&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m184&_trkparms=algo%3DDR%26its%3DS%252BI%252BSS%26itu%3DISS%252BUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D4
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: LFF64 on 05 April 2008, 19:00:10
Brilliant thanks for that is it worth mentioning OOF to them  :question
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: Dazzler on 05 April 2008, 19:04:00
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Brilliant thanks for that is it worth mentioning OOF to them  :question
Always worth it ;)
Title: Re: Ignition switch help please
Post by: Andy B on 05 April 2008, 21:31:28
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..... only to be told I was wrong and that the wiring was part of the switch and it all had to be removed from up under the dash  :o HE TOLD ME HE USED TO WORK FOR VX so he knew what he was talking about  ::) any after persuding him I knew what  I
 
It must've been a long while back. The switch was part of the wiring on my Manta.