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Question about steering column lock
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<blockquote data-quote="Riley P" data-source="post: 172465" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>Agreed. I never had my steering wheel lock up. When I bought my car, it had the recall from the dealer completed which means they remove the locking plate from the steering column (so if you can still turn your steering wheel with the car shut off, chances are you have had the recall done), and they also program the computer so if you get the column lock error and the car thinks it's locked the steering wheel, then it shuts off the fuel to the engine above 2mph.</p><p>My car experienced the dreaded column lock error about 10 years ago so I couldn't drive it and had to have it towed home as pulling fuse 10 and all the other 'fixes' wouldn't work. I ordered a column lock bypass kit, which if I remember correctly, is a small wiring harness that replaces the dealer installed K harness that they put in during the recall. The new harness tricks the computer into thinking the column is not locked, so you can drive your car. Later on I had the computer tuned to change the fuel cut off from 2mph to 241 mph (max allowable value) so that should the column lock error ever occur again, it won't shut off the fuel to the engine and I can still drive my car. At the same time I had the radiator fans turn on at lower temps so the engine wouldn't get as hot and also had the 1-4 skip shift light turned off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley P, post: 172465, member: 2"] Agreed. I never had my steering wheel lock up. When I bought my car, it had the recall from the dealer completed which means they remove the locking plate from the steering column (so if you can still turn your steering wheel with the car shut off, chances are you have had the recall done), and they also program the computer so if you get the column lock error and the car thinks it's locked the steering wheel, then it shuts off the fuel to the engine above 2mph. My car experienced the dreaded column lock error about 10 years ago so I couldn't drive it and had to have it towed home as pulling fuse 10 and all the other 'fixes' wouldn't work. I ordered a column lock bypass kit, which if I remember correctly, is a small wiring harness that replaces the dealer installed K harness that they put in during the recall. The new harness tricks the computer into thinking the column is not locked, so you can drive your car. Later on I had the computer tuned to change the fuel cut off from 2mph to 241 mph (max allowable value) so that should the column lock error ever occur again, it won't shut off the fuel to the engine and I can still drive my car. At the same time I had the radiator fans turn on at lower temps so the engine wouldn't get as hot and also had the 1-4 skip shift light turned off. [/QUOTE]
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