Guys, my steering wheel lock died on me, so now the car won't start.
Now, the "good" news is that it died with the lock disengaged, so i can actually move the steering wheel.
I saw that removing the fuse would disable the lock, so i did that. The problem is the car still won't start even though i also disconnected the battery.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Because i don't want to shell out 500 bucks for another steering lock that is doomed to fail anyway (car is out of warranty). And i figured since the steering lock is disengaged, might as well just disable the thing for good.

Thanks in advance!

Have you read through all the threads in detail here? I know there are people saying if it fails, you have to get it replaced. I am wondering if there is a way to remove it or bypass it to get the car to turn on, and then remove the fuse and reinstall the non-functioning one. Though now that I think about it, if there were a way to do that you would probably see people just removing it altogether, and I don't think that works. GL man, no fun...

This is what i'm afraid off, There's no way i'm shelling out 500 bucks for something like this, specially since i'd be reflectively replacing it with something that will fail again.
This is why i need a temporary solution, i just need to turn on the car once and then i'll remove the fuse.

if its failed, you can hammer it a bit gently while trying to start the car to get it into unlock. start the car then, and pull the fuse immediately.

Your situation where its not locked and car wont start seems strange.

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EDIT: PS: It's not necessary to post the same thing multiple times.

What Baer said, its on the other side (fender/tire side).

Depress the latch on the side to release and pull up, then reach to the bottom of the box for the two lips to press and lift the cover up.

:iagree::iagree:

I did what 4 or 5 cars, just this last weekend.:tup:

Well then you better hook a brother up with some Reps!!:tup:

Yeah dude, you were knocking them out FAST! :tup: :tup:

I fricken love working on cars...

With a build date of 2/2010, will it have a Rev B or Rev C steering lock?

It doesn't really matter which one you have there are no good revisions!

There's only a million threads on these things. Search man. You could have even googled it. But anyways, pull that gdamn fuse NOW. NOWWWWWW. lol

I'm glad I've been able to help alott of people with my discovery of the steering lock fuse removal but all these threads got me going.

Crazy:icon14:

lol yeah I read over a lot of threads but couldn't find a specific build date they started using the Rev C's. Anyways, I guess whether it's a Rev B or C it's trash. No negative side affects of pulling the fuse other than the car will be easier to hijack?