[dalereed]

There is nothing wrong with the ignition switches.

All makes and models have had the same problem ever since they moved the switch to the steering column.

A friend of mine that had a tune up and dyno shop constantly encountered this 25 years ago with people who had large amounts of keys and other crap hanging from their ignition key!

[cuban leaf]

There is nothing wrong with the ignition switches.

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I agree. This is really just like the “sticking gas pedals” on Toyotas. They sold over 1.6 million of these cars and there were 13 deaths caused by people with really heavy keychains. That is a 99.99924% safety record. It’s outstanding.

No, I’m not being sarcastic. When it comes to stats like this, I never really care about the number of people who died. I want to know the number relative to the number of units sold. 13 is a lot if they sold 20 cars. It’s statistically zero if they sold 1.6 million. Sure, it’s personal for the families of the 13, but that is an issue for a different thread - one on greiving for those who die from any sort of freak accident - which is what these folks died of.

[jazusamo]

On the original ignition switches for these compacts there was a problem. The spring was weak and the plunger for the detent was short. They made a change by lengthening the spring and plunger but never told anyone and didn’t change the part number.

This was talked about in the Congressional hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday.

It’s true this has occurred with other makes and models for many years when key chains are loaded down with much of whatever but GM did and does have a problem.