ATTENTION!! 2009-2010 owners with steering lock/wont start issues

MJB

Ok guys, I had a strange issue going on. I have a REV C steering lock on my 09. I'm assuming the original owner had it replaced at some point. Anyways, I removed the fuse last summer just to be on the safe side. All was well until I started to get a long pause each time I hit the start button. I would say a good 3 seconds before it would start. Didn't really think much of it.

So after a couple months is when the strange problem started to occur. Basically when I would push the start button, nothing. On the display it would show the "no key" symbol and the fob port would start flashing. So the only way to start the car would be by sticking the key in the port and it would start fine with no issues.

It has been doing this for months. Sometimes it will start after pushing the button, sometimes only when I put the key in the port. Sometimes if I pushed the start button multiple times it would finally start. It was like my car couldn't read the key unless it was plugged into the fob.

So I decided to just put the fuse back in and see if that had anything to do it with. I was a little hesitant though because it had been disengaged for almost a year, and I didn't want to take a chance of it locking up on me. Luckily a forum member was selling his REV D lock for super cheap. I bought it up quick, installed it today, put the fuse back in.... and NO starting issues at all. It starts on the first hit of the button like its supposed to!

So I don't know if this is an isolated incident, maybe other people are having the same issue.

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