Iran has auto industry.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Are you shitin me?

WTF is a detente spring?

The detente spring is the spring that holds the key's position in the desired place. GM (actually AC Delco) put too short a spring in the ignition switch and it thereby put too little force behind the plunger that goes into the little divots that keep the key in its chosen position.

These aren't newfangled ignition switches. They are the same basic design as has been used for a half a century.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...35171004763740

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

These aren't newfangled ignition switches. They are the same basic design as has been used for a half a century.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...35171004763740

Yeah, but back in those days we didn't even have seat belts let alone air bags.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Yeah, but back in those days we didn't even have seat belts let alone air bags.

In the case of the GM ignition switch, airbag deployment is being used as an indicator as to whether or not a faulty ignition switch was responsible for the crash. If the car turned off before colliding, the airbag would not deploy. Conversely, if the air bag deployed, something else caused the accident.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The detente spring is the spring that holds the key's position in the desired place. GM (actually AC Delco) put too short a spring in the ignition switch and it thereby put too little force behind the plunger that goes into the little divots that keep the key in its chosen position.

These aren't newfangled ignition switches. They are the same basic design as has been used for a half a century.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...35171004763740

Then how come our Impalas don't have this problem if it is a common switch used throughout?