[s-cars] ignition switch r&4: need help

[Peter Schulz]

Konstantine:

I had to replace both the lock cylinder/tumbler and the switch when it failed in my wife's departed 1991 200q20v Avant.
Evidently my petite dainty-handed wife had managed to twist the tongue on the lock cylinder....

ps> Bentley Volume 3 section 94.10 goes through the ignition lock removal process, including how to remove the lock cylinder.
good luck!


-Peter


On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:48 PM, Konstantine Bogach wrote:

>  I gave up.  Switch will hang on wires, but new now.  :(
> 
> On 10/10/2010 06:30 PM, Konstantine Bogach wrote:
>> It seems to me the switch does not mate with lock properly.  Whatever 
>> I did I could not make the switch follow the key:  I turn ignition on, 
>> but can not turn it off.  Seems like lock's tong, or whatever it is 
>> which goes the switch's slot, bites it to turn ignition on but in 
>> opposite direction it is not able to rotate the switch.  I reached the 
>> dark side of the lock and I am afraid something wrong there.   The 
>> tong is not just flat tab but feels like a complex shape.  It also 
>> feels like  there are 2 rotating  parts and  they move not uniformly.  
>> Anyone has a car with stripped dash panel to make a picture of the 
>> lock from inside?   How to remove the lock?  I did not find in Bentley 
>> anything about switch/lock replacement procedure (I looked in ignition 
>> section and the index)
>> 
>> Konstantine
>> 
>> On 10/10/2010 05:11 PM, Konstantine Bogach wrote:
>>> Hi,  I am putting in a  new ignition switch into my 200tq '89 and 
>>> there is a problem:  ingnition is on but started does not engage (no 
>>> click either).  Switch is new, works (it was hanging under steering 
>>> column for a few days), but when I put it into housing - no starter.  
>>> I pushed it into the housing as much as I could, the screw looks like 
>>> in the groove.    Do I need to wiggle the key to let the switch fully 
>>> engage with that tong in the lock?
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> Konstantine
>> 
> 
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-Peter Schulz
Chelmsford Ma, USA
http://www.naaclub.org/

1995.5 S6 Avant Emerald/Ecru
1995.5 S6 Avant Silver/Platinum
1991 90Q 20v Q Red
1991 90Q 20v Indigo
1991 CQ silver  (eS2 recipient)