Ignition starter switch...
EibmoZnEimad
09-14-2004, 06:15 PM
I posted this in the Camaro forum earlier today... but this forum seems a little more interactive and knowledgable.
I have a '95 Camaro with the L32 (3.4 L V6) and it's an automatic. A few days ago the spedometer and tachometer started acting strange... like when I was on the freeway doing about 70 mph, the spedometer would bounce around from 80 to 60 (while still going 70) until I either accelerated or hit the brake. The tachometer would do the same, though not as drastically... just bounce from like 2,000 rpm to about 3,000. I never felt any hesitation or heard any drop or rise in the engine revs, and once I got off the freeway it didn't do it anymore.
Well the next day, I had trouble starting the car. It would turn over and catch, but as soon as I let go of the key and it went back into the "on" position, the car would die. I tried it a few times, then went in and told my step dad. My mom asked if my remote starter would work. I hadn't tried it yet, but I did after she asked, and it started just fine. So I put the key in the ignition and it worked. When I was going to head back home, the car wouldn't start again, and I hit the remote too many times and disengaged the programming so I couldn't remote start it. I played with the ignition a little and figured out that I had to pull the key toward me in the on position, just before it got to the off position (not the lock position). None of the warning lights or gauges were on when it would die, but when I moved the toward me they would come on. So after a few attempts, the engine nearly stalled but sputtered back to life and ran fine... up until last night.
The spedometer thing happened again, only more drastically and more often. I got off the freeway and it kept doing it. I was about ten minutes from my house and it just died on me. It would start up with the remote (I reprogrammed it), but as soon as I would push the brake in to shift out of park (there is a security relay that disengages the remote start when the brake pedal is pushed), the engine would die. I tried moving it around like I did before and got nothing. I ended up having to call my step dad and he tied my Camaro up to the back of his truck and he towed me home.
I looked through here last night and found a couple of similar cases and figured it was my ignition switch. I tried looking through my Haynes manual before going to sleep, but gave up because I was tired. I had to get my mom to take me to work this morning, making her a little late. And she has a doctor appointment tomarrow, so I want to get it fixed tonight but my step dad said it would probably take two after-work days to finish.
I know this is a long post, but I wanted to explain the symptoms in as much detail as possible. I haven't checked the fuses yet, and my a/c and fuel pump still kick in when the key is in the on position, just not anything in the dash. Could a blown fuse be the problem or is it the ignition switch? Or something entirely different?
I have a '95 Camaro with the L32 (3.4 L V6) and it's an automatic. A few days ago the spedometer and tachometer started acting strange... like when I was on the freeway doing about 70 mph, the spedometer would bounce around from 80 to 60 (while still going 70) until I either accelerated or hit the brake. The tachometer would do the same, though not as drastically... just bounce from like 2,000 rpm to about 3,000. I never felt any hesitation or heard any drop or rise in the engine revs, and once I got off the freeway it didn't do it anymore.
Well the next day, I had trouble starting the car. It would turn over and catch, but as soon as I let go of the key and it went back into the "on" position, the car would die. I tried it a few times, then went in and told my step dad. My mom asked if my remote starter would work. I hadn't tried it yet, but I did after she asked, and it started just fine. So I put the key in the ignition and it worked. When I was going to head back home, the car wouldn't start again, and I hit the remote too many times and disengaged the programming so I couldn't remote start it. I played with the ignition a little and figured out that I had to pull the key toward me in the on position, just before it got to the off position (not the lock position). None of the warning lights or gauges were on when it would die, but when I moved the toward me they would come on. So after a few attempts, the engine nearly stalled but sputtered back to life and ran fine... up until last night.
The spedometer thing happened again, only more drastically and more often. I got off the freeway and it kept doing it. I was about ten minutes from my house and it just died on me. It would start up with the remote (I reprogrammed it), but as soon as I would push the brake in to shift out of park (there is a security relay that disengages the remote start when the brake pedal is pushed), the engine would die. I tried moving it around like I did before and got nothing. I ended up having to call my step dad and he tied my Camaro up to the back of his truck and he towed me home.
I looked through here last night and found a couple of similar cases and figured it was my ignition switch. I tried looking through my Haynes manual before going to sleep, but gave up because I was tired. I had to get my mom to take me to work this morning, making her a little late. And she has a doctor appointment tomarrow, so I want to get it fixed tonight but my step dad said it would probably take two after-work days to finish.
I know this is a long post, but I wanted to explain the symptoms in as much detail as possible. I haven't checked the fuses yet, and my a/c and fuel pump still kick in when the key is in the on position, just not anything in the dash. Could a blown fuse be the problem or is it the ignition switch? Or something entirely different?
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