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Turned key and nothing happened - momentary glitch?

Morning all,

I'm using my D3 as a daily just now as I've returned my last company car. It's been a joy to use every day; I've owned this car for three years now (the longest I've ever kept a car!) and it still puts a smile on my face when I use it to commute.

Had a bit of a glitch this morning though... I always unlock and turn the key to position II immediately before jumping in and getting buckled up etc. to let the systems warm up. When I then went to turn the ignition this morning, absolutely nothing happened. The key turned all the way in the barrel and sprung back again, but no ignition. I tried again and the same thing happened.

So I then turned it off, took the key out. Re-inserted it and followed the same procedure and the car started first time, no hesitation, nothing unusual. And off I went.

Seems like a strange one... Everything else in the car is fine, it's got a new battery, new-ish alternator, recently serviced etc. Is it possible that it could have just had an electrical wobbly this morning? Has anyone else experienced similar symptoms?

Cheers
Chris
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Sounds like the ignition switch is probably the cause?
  
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Either that or it might be a sticky gear shifter!
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it's an LR Chris Laughing

that's it.
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A squirt of WD40 down the ignition barrel should sort it. Thumbs Up
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See if it happens again and go from there.
  
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Mine does that all the time. I really need to get to the root cause. its not "sticking" so WD40 sounds like a iffy idea as it could insulate contacts etc.

Any proven techniques (contact cleaner) or new switches etc. Im obviously worried that one day it wont work at all.
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I get this with Miss Moneypit occasionally. To be honest i'd forgotten about it until you mentioned it Smile

I presumed it was a worn ignition barrel / switch @ 140K but could well be something else.

There are always more pressing things to fix Whistle

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