Ignition lock key broken and wheel lock on.

colino

Unfortunately if the perseverance route will not work, you are left with what the mechanic will do, same as a joy rider, but with a bit more finesse. Not the place to go into detail, but you will need the old, complete unit removing. Taking the cowls off could get the car started, but unless you want to break the locking mechanism off in situ, you wouldn't be able to drive it.
Ask around and find out who is a highly recommended local garage, but be prepared for a stiff bill, the new unit itself wont be cheap and it will be an hours labour plus callout.

paddedjohn

Try a bit of superglue (good) on the piece you have and gently insert it into the lock, it may attach itself to the other part. It might work but at worst you are no worse off.

diamond_dave

My ignition switch packed up recently and I managed to get a used one + key from the scrappy. Remove the steering column shroud and you will see the barrel of the lock. Remove the (very)small screw holding the barrel in place then press the spring loaded round pin on the opposite side of the screw - this allows the whole barrel to be removed. Then you can work on removing the broken key. As said before you have to turn the steering wheel slightly in order to relieve the pressure on the locking mechanism - once this is done the process should be easy. best of luck. On the problem with the keys not fitting the ignition only the doors I had a new key cut and it will only fit ONE way round. perhaps this will help.

colino

diamond dave, that only works when you can turn the barrel to position I or II. The electrical part of the switch will always come off easily, but the barrel itself is a boshing exercise.

diamond_dave

Yep, Colino, you are right. You do have to turn the lock to 1 or11 but could he not do that using the remains of the key or a screwdriver?

colino

diamond dave with a screwdriver properly placed, they could have driven it to the garage by now!

HappyRose_2

Properly placed screwdriver!
Mechanic won't come out.

HappyRose_2

colino wrote: »

diamond dave, that only works when you can turn the barrel to position I or II. The electrical part of the switch will always come off easily, but the barrel itself is a boshing exercise.

Does boshing mean easy or difficult? Guess its easy.
Hmmm still stuck.
Will try tweezers etc as mechanic won't come down.

Richard53

I'm guessing 'boshing' = unconventional techniques, involving violence, swearing, large pieces of metal and a few skinned knuckles.

I had to replace the ignition switch on one of the bikes, and to get the anti-tamper bolts out involved a lot of cutting, sawing and a chisel. I replaced them with nice shiny stainless bolts and nuts. After all, who is going to know?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Renault put anti tamper locking nuts on the megane steering colum for the barrel and locking mechanism, not many people know and when turned the wrong way will lock themselves in place and no matter how much you try you simply have to resort to hacking the thing up.


lefty loosely righty tighty, not on those bolts! I nearly locked up the megane steering lock box on the column doing that way.