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Impending ignition switch failure or not?
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<blockquote data-quote="HaulinAshe" data-source="post: 431628" data-attributes="member: 1875"><p>Feeling desperate and uneasy about the whole switch thing, last night I decided to spray some ether in the weep hole and used compressed air from above to quickly blow it through. I placed a clean white shop towel underneath to catch what came out.</p><p></p><p>You would be amazed at how much gunk and debris exited that weep hole in three or four cleaning passes! Of particular concern to me was the size and amount of plating fragments from the ignition keys themselves. Most fragments were silver (plating material), but many were tiny flakes of the brass itself.</p><p></p><p>I wound up "flushing" the entire switch with repeated passes of ether, compressed air, WD-40 and compressed air again. It seems to me that mileage is as much a factor as time. After all, my 2007 is barely 16-months old, but has appreciable mileage at 46,000. Perhaps it's plausible that the weep hole is doing more than weeping, and that gunk may be accumulating upward into the weep hole? Perhaps there is enough of an air flow dynamics change in Gen-II to cause such an issue? Just sayin...</p><p></p><p>In any case, the switch has regained its discernible "click" that it originally had and I THINK I feel better about its operation and reliability. I'm going in search of a good contact cleaner to use for the next cleaning session. Old-fashioned tuner cleaner that's safe for plastics is almost impossible to find nowadays.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaulinAshe, post: 431628, member: 1875"] Feeling desperate and uneasy about the whole switch thing, last night I decided to spray some ether in the weep hole and used compressed air from above to quickly blow it through. I placed a clean white shop towel underneath to catch what came out. You would be amazed at how much gunk and debris exited that weep hole in three or four cleaning passes! Of particular concern to me was the size and amount of plating fragments from the ignition keys themselves. Most fragments were silver (plating material), but many were tiny flakes of the brass itself. I wound up "flushing" the entire switch with repeated passes of ether, compressed air, WD-40 and compressed air again. It seems to me that mileage is as much a factor as time. After all, my 2007 is barely 16-months old, but has appreciable mileage at 46,000. Perhaps it's plausible that the weep hole is doing more than weeping, and that gunk may be accumulating upward into the weep hole? Perhaps there is enough of an air flow dynamics change in Gen-II to cause such an issue? Just sayin... In any case, the switch has regained its discernible "click" that it originally had and I THINK I feel better about its operation and reliability. I'm going in search of a good contact cleaner to use for the next cleaning session. Old-fashioned tuner cleaner that's safe for plastics is almost impossible to find nowadays. [/QUOTE]
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