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Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019
I'm a recent victim of the embarrassingly engineered Ford ignition cylinder; so when my key would no longer turn in the ignition I did some research and found this product. I have to say, I was very worried about installing this myself—not because I'm not handy, but because I had to put on my locksmithing hat to assemble the cylinder and tumblers to accommodate my keys (who wants to get a whole new set and have them keyed to a new cylinder?!).But here's the thing—my work was done in less than an hour. And the spring/tumbler assembly was a piece of cake. There are several YouTube videos out there that will walk novices (like me) through each step. The cylinder is installed and working to perfection.Some advice from my experience...First: when I was assembling springs and tumblers, I used a technique I saw in a video to test that I was doing things correctly. The locksmith inserted the unit into the casing reversed to see if the tumblers depressed enough to turn it in the casing. This sort of worked for me, but I got a little worried I was doing something wrong because there was some resistance. It was fine. Just fine.Second: When I got to the second to last tumbler (the second closest to the key), I had trouble getting the key in. I had to wiggle the key; a few times I had to slightly depress the tumbler before the key would go in and fully depress the tumbler (and yes, I had the same problem with all 3 keys!). Of course, I was worried what this might mean given that once the cylinder is inserted into the casing (at least from what I read online), I'd have a beast of a time getting it out. All this to say, I took a chance and, once assembled, the key no longer stuck on this tumbler.Third: Like in the video I watched, I too had a tumbler (#7/second in from the end) that was a bit proud of the others. The video said not to worry about it, so I didn't. No problems.If you're wondering if you're up for fixing your ignition cylinder, this product will assuage any of your doubts. You can fix it!
R. Wilson
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2018
I bought this piece to use for my 2008 Ford Focus SE. As other reviews stated, overtime it gets harder and harder to jiggle the key or push it in so that it starts until it just stops starting at all; which inevitably happened to me. My dad and I spent two hours setting and putting in this part just to find out that this piece was not needed for my issue. Turns out the entire housing needed to be replaced that holds the lock cylinder. I wish I had read further into this issue before wasting my time. I ended up bringing it to a friends shop to fix even though I could've bought the part on amazon and done it for cheaper myself. Long story short, buy both and see which one fixes the problem, could be either or but for me this did nothing. The part worked great as needed and that's why it deserves 5 stars and it was a great deal! Dealership quoted me $400 for this tiny piece...absolutely ridiculous. The housing sells on amazon for about $140. Cost me $200 for part and $150 for labor.... just FIX IT YOURSELF. Online tutorials, videos and forums will tell you what to do AND you don't have to remove the steering column to fix it! Just pull off the bolt and replace it with one you buy separately! Most importantly, DO YOUR RESEARCH.
CATHY C.
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015
The first thing I had to do was to ask FORD to make me a dummy key (without a programming chip) to use to put together this kit because my only key was so worn down it was almost a blank key. Then I put together the kit and some of the tumblers didn't go completely flush but pretty close and would go flush if pushed a tiny bit. I could have had the wrong tumblers in the wrong slot, not sure. The last tumbler was hard to press down and push inside the outside cylinder. Then it wouldn't turn inside the cylinder so I took it to a locksmith. For only $20 he made it work perfectly. Then, I went back to FORD and they made me 2 keys with a chip for $25 apiece (its mandatory to buy 2 keys) and since I had the ignition cylinder working properly and the dashboard already taken apart, for $75 they removed the old ignition cylinder, put in the new cylinder and programmed the 2 keys. So for a total of $25 for the ignition kit, $50 for 2 keys, $20 for a locksmith to get it running smoothly, and $75.00 + tax I was able to replace everything. FORD had quoted me $350 to $400 so I saved a minimum $180 - $230. I am a VERY VERY happy customer. I would have had to buy 2 new keys and have it programmed anyway! Only extra I spent was the $20 for the locksmith to make sure it was working perfectly!
Technology Guru
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2014
If your ignition is getting stuck but you can still get it to turn with some monkeying around or jiggling....replace your ignition lock cylinder BEFORE it gets stuck. Because we could no longer turn the key in our 2000 Focus ZTS, I had to drill out the old cylinder. Its not hard and directions are on Youtube, my Ryobi cordless drill handled it with ease. But its always scary when you have a drill bit digging in to unfamiliar places.This ignition lock works fine, does the job, and its easy to re-key your original key to this new lock cylinder kit. BUT it came with absolutely zero instructions. Thankfully there are plenty of instruction videos on Youtube, but most of the people making them are doing this for the first time too. So learn from my mistake, watch more than one video and watch to the VERY END before you put everything together. Otherwise you might end up putting the rear clip on rotated 180 degrees, or end up like me, taking it apart because you skipped internal lubrication before final assembly.
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