Re: Help! Smoke from steering column ('92 100)

[Andrew Duane USG <duane@hunch.zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made robert.shemo@tfn.com say:

> On Saturday, I started my wife's 100 and a wisp of smoke trailed up from
> the wiper switch opening on the steering column. It stopped almost
> immediately and hasn't come back. Her 86 Pontiac Sunbird did the same thing
> and I tore open the steering column to find nothing (the smoke never
> returned, either). I really don't want to open up the steering column in
> the 100 considering the airbag is there and I don't like the idea of
> replacing the multifuction switch if I don't have to.

Hmmmm.

Smoke is an important part of many electronic components.
If you let the smoke out of them, they don't work right any more.

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