Here's the first time I heard this, hope this never happen to any of us...

http://www.6mt.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=376

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Haven't heard of this on the Coupe 'till now, but a few experienced this on the Sedan early on last year. Never did hear back on the cause. Sounds to me like an issue in the ignition switch.
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That sucks a$$...I hope that they find out what the problem is ...

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small"><EM>Edited by gsedanman on 05/31/03 10:15 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

Hasn't happened to me.
But it sure sounds like it should be a safety recall.
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Check back - you'll find that the so-called problem is really with the positioning of the key. Do NOT use a heavy, large keychain - if they get hit just right, they will turn slightly from the "run" position and turn off the car. How else could a car's engine stop but the radio stay on? The key has turned the engine off! D'oh!



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"How else could a car's engine stop but the radio stay on? The key has turned the engine off! D'oh! "


thats a reasonable assumption...however...there is a computer in this car..along with every other car on the road..and it could be a glitch in the programming or something...it could be a million different reasons actually....

"Dont start none, won't be none"

 

as a computer person I can assert with confidence that if it was a computer/software problem, every car would be experiencing it and they would have found it during QA. Computers run programs, they don't change their minds and run different programs. If it were a program error, it would be more consistent.

Car programs are pretty straight-forward and based on algorithms that everyone in the industry uses. You think Infiniti created a NAV system from scratch? NO way. That 2000 bucks you're paying, well, I could put together a system that would run your entire house with that much cash. The NAV system probably only costs them 400 bucks tops for hardware and software.

Random, quircky problems are more often chemical/physics/environmentally based. And what most troubleshooters forget to do is concentrate on the one really chaotic factor - user input.

Luckily, car computers aren't run by Windows or anything else having to do with Bill Gates, or we'd be restarting them all the time!

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I had heard from a Ford service manager, some time ago, that women experience ignition problems at a higher rate than men. Ford looked into it and found that women generally carry many more keys on their keychains...turns out that ignitions don't dig that. Of course, it makes sense once you look at it from a step or two back...but it's not something that's intuitive.

Ryan


Drive it like I stole it?
Hell...drive it like I'm making payments on it...

 

yeah, my Dad and my friends always told me not to have a heavy keychain and especially keep the keys off the car's keychain. This was common knowlege back then but I'm not sure it is now.

I guess back in the 70's and 80's we were used to passing on tips like that because all the cars broke down so easily. We all had cars with something major wrong - no floor, no solenoid, no first gear - and drove them anyway. It got so you couldn't go for a drive unless you had at least two friends going with you to help push start!

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