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Originally Posted by citabria7
I have owned a lot of cars, and never had anyone say having keys was a problem, or ever had one shut off. Sure indicates that GM switches are a little, or a lot, too delicate.
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Its not so much the number of keys, its people who have multiple keychains connected together so there's a 6 or 8" long swinging weight hanging off the ignition... in hard bumps or aggressive maneuvers that weight will rotate the key just like your hand will. It also accelerates the wear on the switch and scratches up the dash around it, so all in all not a good idea. As a truck driver who switches trucks pretty often, I used to carry duplicates of most of my keys on one of those separating keychains so I could leave one vehicle running and start the other, or leave it running and lock the door at truck stops. that 6" long chain with a dozen or so keys on both ends of it did exactly what I'm talking about, and not just in GM cars. I still carry the same type of keychain but the spare half is clipped to my belt when I'm in a vehicle now.