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Re: <OT> Ignition Switch Help Needed

To: "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: <OT> Ignition Switch Help Needed
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:41:44 -0400
There's a place called World Wide Imports in GA that specializes in Alfas
that should sell it. Not cheap probably. Or

Bring it to a locksmith they may be able to fix it. I brought in an ignition
switch for a 240 and my neighbor who is a locksmith fixed it for me.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Laury" <vlaury@earthlink.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:14 PM
Subject: <OT> Ignition Switch Help Needed


> My Neighbor asked me to help. His Alfa Milano Ignition lock/switch would
not
> turn. It would a little but not enough for any action. So I pulled it out.
> It's a Ymos set made in Germany, looks expensive. I boasted that I would
> find one on the web, but, no matter what search I did, I could not find a
> Vendor for ignition locks. What gives? Is there some secret vendor, only
> known to locksmiths? I thought I'd be able to disassemble the switch to
> diagnose the fault, but it was Chinese Arithmetic to me as to how to take
> the mechanism apart.
>
> I did a nifty job at rigging a hot wire setup for him so he could get to
> work and back.
>
> Any leads on where to find such parts? Autoparts.com was a bust and so was
> the specialty Alfa sites.

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