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DEpointfive0

I don't know. (Older 370Zs had it, and they broke all the time leaving people stranded) All my other cars have it and they never had an issue with the old fashion type...


And to answer cooltoy's question. I think it was/is a safety feature so that anyone cannot turn on your car, you need to move the steering wheel off the "locked" position to start it.

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VCuomo

Not as far as I know - all of the cars I know of, including the pre-2011 370Zs, don't require you to move the steering wheel in order to start it - you just have to move the ignition switch so that the steering wheel unlocks and the starter engages.

I'm not saying that there aren't any models where you also have to move the steering wheel off of the locked position, I've just never seen one and I'm an old fart who remembers when the car manufacturers started putting steering wheel locks in their cars. As MadChemist pointed out, the steering wheel lock was widely advertised back in the day as a "modern" anti-theft device - it had nothing to do with safety.

End of old fart's history lesson for the day. Class dismissed!