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960 ignition switch failure? *and why I can't stop thinking about buying an L6 900

posted by  ChrisS on  Sun Dec 2 15:30 CST 2007
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Hello, everyone. Well, I got back to the Brick fold this year with the purchase of a cherry 1991 745 B230. It had 105k miles on her and was, for all intents, a garage queen. A sweet car that will hopefully be in the family for many a year.

Here's the quandary: I drove a 965 prior to buying the above and have not been able to get it out of my mind. I scour Craigslist and the classifieds for 960s at every turn. Worse, I go and test drive them. Missed out on a cherry 98 V90 a couple weeks back. Hurts to think about it.

Now, I find myself ogling a different car: a 95 965 that is quite decent on the exterior but has some "care" issues on the interior. My wife's opinion aside, I'm possibly more concerned about this issue: when I test drove the car, it rode fine. Possibly a u-joint issue or trans mount issue, because of some driveline wiggle (not much honestly). So, one issue to deal with. But, the bigger issue is when I went to restart the car, it would not move from Park - turns out the ignition switch may be to blame..???? does anyone know about this?

Also, of concern to me was the engine not turning over straight away - it took about two+ full seconds to get it to catch. Then the above happened when I could not pull it out of Park.

Thanks for your suggestions. I need to be cured of this disease. Maybe by buying this car for $2400 today :-)
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1991 745 -- RIP: 88 764T; 79 262C






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