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Posted on Jul 16, 2008

Ignition motor still running, key is out of igniton, will not turn off. stopped engine by using kill switch,but the igniton is still on, had to disconnect battery

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I just had that same prob with mine. My Solution: NEW steering collum / key switch
what was happening was the key would get stuck in the igniton and i had to give it a little tap to get it to relese from the igniton. well, by giving it those taps, it popped a little plastic lever in the collum for the igniton switch. then the car would turn on with the key, but not turn off, i had to do the same thing that you had to do to to turn it off/on.

A steering collum later, and it was fixed

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