Re: [tech] ignition cuts out

[scirocco.gtx@juno.com (Mark A Peele)]

The switch is separate from the key (no need for a re-key) . Your Bentley
outlines the procedure.

If you get a new switch, you can try it out without tearing the thing
apart. Just unplug the harness from the bottom of the ignition key
thingy, and plug it into the new switch (which will be dangling at this
point). Now, you can use a simple screw driver to turn the switch to the
start position. Voila! The car will start. You can drive the car around
for a few days like this to make sure that this is the problem. 

If the car works fine, then you must do the PITA Bentley procedure.

Just make sure that you pocket the switch everytime you leave your car!

Mark . . .
Scirocco 1982, Golf GT 1987
Scirocco 1978
Previous Sciroccos: 1981S (RIP), 1980S, 1975TS, 1975
http://home.t-online.de/home/Scirocco2/marc.htm

On Fri, 02 Oct 1998 02:20:26 -0400 "Wm. Josiah Erikson"
<josiah@gsinet.net> writes:
>OH YEAH!! (Duh!)
>Geez, do I feel like a DUMBASS... I just had an extra ignition, too... 
>threw it
>away with my '83.
>Well, the reason I feel like a dumbass is that I noticed that before, 
>just a few
>weeks before my fuel pump died. I'll bet that's the problem. I'll 
>replace the
>coil, since I have another one sitting around, and if that's not it, 
>then I'll
>have to get a new ignition... can you get them rekeyed? Because I have 
>an ignition
>switch, just no key.
>    TIA,
>    Josiah
>
>SailingFC@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Try jiggling the key while the engine is running.  My ignition 
>switch was
>> wearing out and the contacts were getting loose inside.  The engine 
>would die
>> when the keys were moved.
>> HTH. GL.
>>
>>  -dick-
>> 78 Scirocco
>> Original Owner
>> <A 
>HREF="http://members.aol.com/sailingfc/">http://members.aol.com/sailingfc
>> </A>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/1/98 6:43:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>josiah@gsinet.net
>> writes:
>>
>> > OK... JH engine we're talking about on a Rabbit GTi, CIS of 
>course.
>> >  I'll be driving down the road, doesn't make a diff if I'm 
>accelerating,
>> >  cornering, or anything, and the ignition will cut out 
>momentarily, then
>> >  come back in. I know it's the ignition because the tach drops at 
>the
>> >  same time. I'm thinking coil... anything else I should check 
>first that
>> >  is a common failure? Anybody had this happen and fix it 
>successfully?
>> >  I'd love to get it fixed before the race on Sunday, but if I 
>don't, I'm
>> >  going to race ANYWAY because the damn car is at least RUNNING!! 
>(excuse
>> >  me, had to vent... last time I was going to race, the car DIED on 
>me the
>> >  DAY before the race.... turned out to be a fuel pump)
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