We continue our series of articles on what can get stuck on your car. After seeing why your fuel flap or hood could get stuck, today we’ll check out why the key is stuck in your Mercury Grand Marquis ignition . Specially irritating, having a stuck ignition cylinder will prevent you from starting and consequently from employing your car. We will so do everything we can to help you fix this issue as soon as possible. To do this, first, we will show you to you what the ignition of your car is used for, then in a second time, why the ignition barrel of your Mercury Grand Marquis is stuck? And, at last, how to unblock the key stuck in your Mercury Grand Marquis ignition.
What’s the aim of my Mercury Grand Marquis’s ignition lock?
The ignition lock of your Mercury Grand Marquis is a security part. Its intent is to protect your car from theft attempts. It is installed on the steering column of your car, developed in 1931 by Abram Neiman. Its intent is to prevent your Mercury Grand Marquis from starting by blocking the steering and the steering lock if it does not identify your car key. It is closely connected to the starter switch which will integrate the key lock and an electric switch. There is a tendency to confuse the starter switch and the neiman, and when we talk about blocked neiman we generally make reference to a key that does not turn or does not turn well in the cylinder of the lock of your car.
Why is the key stuck in your Mercury Grand Marquis ignition?
Now it’s time to show you to you why the key is stuck in your Mercury Grand Marquis ignition cylinder . Now that we’ve described what the ignition is, it’s time to identify why it’s stuck. If it is the steering wheel of your Mercury Grand Marquis that is blocked, do not think twice to browse our content on this subject. A neiman is not a wearing component that you change frequently but time has an influence on it and it can occur that you have to change it as a result of normal wear and tear. On this website are the different reasons of a ignition that locks on Mercury Grand Marquis :
- Regular wear and tear on the ignition barrel of your Mercury Grand Marquis : As we stated over, with time, the elements of the neiman can become seized up, or become loaded with dust or small particles from the outside that will prevent it from functioning effectively. In this case, you should experience struggle inserting and turning the key before it locks totally.
- A component of the ignition of your Mercury Grand Marquis that fails: In the same logic, an element of the neiman can fail. As we explained in introduction, when we talk about the neiman we tend to include, the cylinder, the lock and the starter switch, if one of these parts is faulty, the neiman will not let the key turn in the cylinder of the lock
- Someone forced too much on the ignition barrel of your Mercury Grand Marquis: At last, last possibility, and it’s more or less obvious, if someone forced too much on the neiman in unlocking the steering wheel of your car before, he may have twisted internal elements and thus damaged the neiman of it.
How do I unlock the key stuck in my Mercury Grand Marquis ignition barrel?
We now move on to the solutions available to you for fixing a key stuck in your Mercury Grand Marquis ignition . Depending to the source of your issue the solutions will not be similar, find them below:
- Ignition barrel blocked as a result of a twisted key: If your key is twisted, it is logical that your neiman will not unblock. Try softly with a mallet to straighten your key, if you can’t do it, use the duplicate of your key.
- Ignition cylinder If the neiman of your Mercury Grand Marquis is clogged as a result of impurities : Use a WD40 type degreaser and let it work for a few moments, it should unblock the neiman of your Mercury Grand Marquis.
- If your key is stuck in your ignition as a result of a faulty element: If finally it is as a result of an internal element that your ignition lock is no longer unblocked you will sadly have to change the whole block (electronic switch, lock cylinder, neiman), we recommend you to go to a specialist who will also have to give you a new key to start your Mercury Grand Marquis.
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