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using your key in the passenger door and see if it does a nice crisp job or you have to mess with it to unlock/lock the door. My dealer buddies tell me that the ignition switch is made of better material than the door switches, and the drivers door switch will wear to the point you can open it with the *wrong* saab key. Those that know me know I have a couple, ok a few, c900's... and have experienced this myself. Open drivers door with wrong key, but it won't start the car.
The dealer guys in the know *always* check the newly made key in the passenger door first, then the ignition, then trunk and lastly the drivers door where often anything that says saab on it will open it.
Where am I going with all this? if the passanger door is difficult to open perhaps you key is worn to the point it can't make the ignition work? Get another key cut AT A DEALER, better material. I may have missed a question/response on the key you are using, is it a SAAB key, rubber top SAAB logo and steel shank? Or is it all flat and aluminum?
Also, if you did spill a soda, or a 44oz tankard line my son did, or coffee with sugar or something else sticky in the area... I did the following after said occurence above. Son had cleaned the area and thought all was good. car sat in the queue for work for about a month with out being started and, yep you guessed it, key would not turn. I knew it was the right key, and good fit, and had worked a month ago, AND son fessed up about the soda... I like you did a research on the boards and started with WD-40, no joy, Electronic contact cleaner CRC brand I think also no joy, then did the half a cup of boiing water into the key slot/area again no joy. HOWEVER the next moring it did move, some, and with a little work (key in and out, a little turn pressure, repeat) and another shot of WD-40 it go well and has been fine every since.
Just say no mo to 440oz er's ! LOL
AND, on a similar note, a Saab buddy of mine had the sad duty to go through the personal effect of a friend of his that died in a motorcycle accident. Part of this entailed finding out where his storage locker was and packing it out too. They had no idea which of about seven places was his, so they had to go to them all until the found this stuff.
The tried the MASTER LOCK keys on every lock in about 5 and a half places until they found his stuff.
But the point of this is that they OPENED FIVE LOCKERS during this that were NOT the correct one. WTFO?
, Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:29:12
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