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I can't tell at the moment if I'm coming down with something, just run down from crappy sleep last night, both of the above, or just think I'm coming down with something and am therefore talking myself into feeling run-down. Which has happened before.

Also, the car's in the shop: the second recurrence of a problem where whatever mechanism it is that holds onto the key when it's in the ignition and turned on so that you can't pull it out is deciding that it looooves my key and won't let it go for some time after I turn the ignition off. Sporadically, which is annoying because it never does it when the mechanic is in it. Anyway, the last time it happened the dealership replaced some part and it fixed it until now.

We're going to be trading this car in come September, which makes it doubly annoying: we have to get it fixed because even though it doesn't happen on command you can be sure that it'll happen when Carmax or the dealership or whoever we sell it to is test-driving it and the resale value will drop.

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Is there any connection to the temperature? We had a Honda that wouldn't let go of the key when it was cold. You had to heat up the general area of the driver's side dash to get the key to release. Turns out there was a solenoid somewhere in there that wasn't making proper contact when cold because it was ever so slightly out of place. They replaced the ignition mechanism the first time and that seemed to solve the problem for a while, but only because they had accidentally jiggled the solenoid into a better position. But eventually it worked its way back to the slightly wrong spot, and the problem started again.

I don't think so, because I believe it was summer the last time this happened, and I can't discern a pattern to when it does and doesn't work.

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Sorry, accidentally published to the wrong post on my "dwircle". Not used to my new layout.

Edited 2013-03-01 00:07 (UTC)

I'm down with a bad cold myself, and I'm convinced I came down with it following a bad sleepless night, because that can compromise the immune system.

The key thing happens regardless of which exact key is used?

We've only tried it with one key, because it doesn't occur to me that we've got a spare. :)