I hate DH's truck!

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Stacey42

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and have seriously messed it up this time.

DH has a 14 year old Ford F150 long bed truck with cab. I hate driving it. I can't back up in it because I can't tell if there is anything directly behind me or how close it might be. So I can only drive forward when I have it, making for some darn interesting parking and let's not even start on the wide turns necessary. The other thing I hate about it is that sometime in the past year the ignition started sticking. Getting the key in requires some fiddling & holding your mouth at just right angle while exhaling and humming the star spangled banner or some such magic combination of events that only DH can manage consistently.

So today DH takes my car in to get it inspected, leaving me with the demon truck. All I have to do is take DS2 to the bus stop, which is 3 miles away & I can loop around from there onto another road & get back to my house so I don't have to back up. Except... the key won't go in the ignition. I wiggle it and jiggle it and turn the wheel this way & that, turn the ignition this way & that, breathe & hum the star spangled banner, get frustrated because we are going to miss the bus, wiggle & push some more and the key finally goes in. But the ignition won't turn. The key isn't in all the way.:thumbdown:

And the key won't come out either. So I have the key jammed in the ignition of his truck. The locksmith I call says he'll just yank it out using a screwdriver for leverage damaging either the key, the ignition or both & I can probably do that myself for free. Props to him for honesty i suppose...

I have no idea what we are going to do. DH will probably force the key out, then we'll have to get it towed to the dealership or someplace to get the ignition replaced. Who knows how long that will take & how much money.

I just had to share. If anyone has any suggestions please make them. I am desperate. It's too cold for DH to ride his motorcycle & I need a car at least 3 days next week. Not having his truck is going to be a serious problem.
 
If it helps any, my friend thought she might have to get her ignition replaced (her ex had her keys) and was told it would only cost about $80. Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble with that truck though!! :(
 
ask the locksmith if you can try squirting some DW-40 in the keyhole to give it some lubrication. But ask first in case it will just do more damage.

Good luck and sorry about the demon truck.
 
I'll suggest the WD40 to DH. I've decided to leave it alone because I'm so frustrated I'm willing to take the screwdriver to it. He's going to pick up my car from the mechanic in an hour & is going to ask for the price of replacing the ignition, plus towing.

I'm hoping it's just the steering wheel isn't turned all the way or some such thing & he can get the key out.
 
I had something similar to this happen to my van, except that the key wasn't stuck, it just wouldn't turn. I think it was the ignition that we had to replace which cost about $250. Plus the $65 for towing. Plus another $250 for another problem with the brakes.

I hate cars.
 
Oh no :( I hope it isn't too expensive.

Reminded me of when I had just passed my test when I was 17. I A few weeks after I borrowed my Mam's car and went shopping. All was good until I came to turn it on and I couldn't get the key in, engine wouldn't turn on. Panic Panic, went back into the shops and phoned my Dad at work - really cross as he was busy and trying to a meeting with his team, sent me back out to try it again - still not working. Back into the shops phoned him again even more cross and told me he would try to get there but to phone the breakdown people.

As luck would have it they both arrived at the same time.

Steering lock was on :p

I'd never even heard of a steering lock!!

He was very cross as he's left work and had to pay the breakdown man
 
Is there any chance you moved the shifter? I know my key got stuck once because it was not entirely in park.
Just a thought/
 
well....

turns out the 'truck key' I was using was actually the key to his motorcycle :o When he left for work this morning he shouts down the hall to me that he is leaving the key on the kitchen counter. But I am in the boys' room changing the sheets on the top bunk so I am distracted & don't think about it. Later I am in the kitchen & don't see a key on the counter but one on the baker's rack. I assume I mis-heard or he mean the rack.

When the key wouldn't work I tried calling him, to make sure it was the right key, but I couldn't get through to him and anyway there was no other key around so it had to be the right key, right?

He managed to get it out by yanking it & the actual key seems to work just fine. Then we had a frantic search for the key because he HAD left it on the counter & it wasn't there & I never saw it. Turns out DS2 saw it on the counter, thought he'd 'help' by hanging it on the baker's rack, then before he made it across the kitchen, he suddenly had to go to the bathroom, took the key with him and left in the bathroom on the side of the toilet.

So we dodged that cost, which is just as well because I needed new brakes to pass inspection.:glare:
 
sorry stacey....dh has a lump of metal in the driveway that he bought for $4000, plus $1700 shop costs and the damn thing still doesn't run. and we're paying insurance on it. had it since april and i never rode in it. i refuse to!
 
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