Electrical gremlin

[Kneale Brownson]

As I was reading through your description of anomalies, the ignition switch 
is what came to mind for me.  Especially with the notation afterward of the 
stickiness.


At 09:41 AM 07/26/2001 -0400, Benjamin Kwan wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>         had something really weird happen to my 92 100CSq yesterday.  In
>the morning I started up the car and rolled out of the garage.  Once out
>of the garage the windows didn't work at all.  Sunroof had no problems.  I
>decided to shut the car down and turn it back on and everything came back.
>I figured it was maybe a one time thing that I will look into later if it
>get's worse.  About 15 minutes into my commute the water and oil temps
>start to rise and I don't hear the fan come on at all.  I was stuck in
>traffic for about 2 minutes before I could pull off into a church parking
>lot.  While sitting in traffic I tried to turn the heat on but the climate
>control was not responding at all.  I thought that this might be part of
>the window problem I had earlier so I tried the windows and they worked.
>So I had the car towed to my mechanic and he thinks that the ignition
>switch may be causing all of these problems.  When you start the car the
>switch would stick and cause the starter to run for about 2 seconds after
>the car has started up.  I can manually turn the key back slightly to stop
>it from happening.  Could a sticky ignition switch be causing all of my
>problems?  My mechanic says that the switch is part of the accessories
>circuit and may have caused the radiator fan not to function, and all the
>electrical weirdness.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben Kwan
>
>94 90S
>92 100CSq
>85 4000S