I just subscribed to this list and have a question - test the collective knowledge right off the bat!
First, who am I and what am I driving. I'm Bob Hamilton - I live near Edmonton, Alberta. We have 5 children and I work as a regulator in the automotive industry in Alberta. My vehicles: oldest is a 1951 Willys truck - had it since 1980 - it's a family member. I've driven VW's for year and a couple years ago found a Mercedes 67 200D that had been sitting for a while. It's rusty and I am gradually fixing that. I drove it home so mechanically, it's in good shape. Then I was driving to work one day and saw an 83 Mercedes 300D for sale. I looked for rust and found none, so sold the Jetta and got it for my kids to drive. There are pictures of the vehicles and various other stuff at: http://picasaweb.google.com/hamibob We also have an 02 Passat Wagon and a 05 Passat Wagon TDI. Now, my questions. We only had one key for the 300D so I had a friend who is a locksmith come over on Saturday and he made some new keys. We found that the ignition key and the door keys were different. Is that the way these cars were originally? We pulled the drivers door handle off while we were making the key. When we put it back in, I don't think we got it back in quite right. So my 18 year old son locked the door on Tuesday, and then when he went to open it had to force it a bit and broke the key. There was already a broken key in the passenger side but I wasn't too worried about that since the vacuum locks do work. I disassembled the door handle and now have the cylinder with the tumblers but my son and I can't seem to get that broken key out. Any suggestions? Thanks ...... Bob
