Broke at the right place

[37 chief]

I was going to hook up my 96 Dodge 3500 to my trailer for a mowing job Tuesday. The key turned but nothing happened. with some help from my
computer, I found out how to change the lock. Getting late in the afternoon. I was surprised Orielly had a switch for my 27 year old pickup. It
happened right in front of my shop, in the shade of a pepper tree. I got it changed, should be good to go. Stan

 

[Patsdeere]

Your luck was as good as mine on an old f150. Ignition was giving me issues and since it had to go to the shop for other things, I let them change it. Pulled into the shop, right in front of service counter and turned it off. Opened the door slightly sobi didn't hit wall and could slide out. They went to move it and the key simply spun. I got every start out of that switch. They had to end up doing it sitting in the truck so they could move it out of the way.

 

[Goose]

Same with me. About 10 years ago, I was driving a '99 Olds 88 over in Iowa. I was doing the real estate inspections at the time, and a gal of ours in Shenandoah, IA had broken a leg in a car wreck, so I had gone to Ottumwa, IA and worked out of a motel for a week catching up some of her work. My last stop before I headed home on Friday afternoon was a very rural house. I had to detour around a bridge out to get there, there was no one home, and no other houses within a couple of miles.

When I was done with my work, I headed for home, a couple hundred miles. I just hauled it straight through till I got home in the evening. Went out the next morning to go somewhere and the car wouldn't start. The ignition switch failed.

Better there in the garage at my house than at that house clear out in the boondocks in Iowa.