Ok, I see now that it's highly dangerous to take out the ignition switch, cause with the pen tube I inserted inside it, to where I can take it out anytime, the key can be turned off or pulled out, in the middle of driving down the road.....

so the car goes dead, and the steering locks.



Luckily, I tried this in a parking lot.




So either I need to find a way to easily trigger the key to come out, or I need to replace the thing.

Can anyone give me a ballpark figure as to how much it should cost me, to replace it?

I wouldn't mind to keep using a tube of some sort, to make the key come out, but it doesn't seem very easy.

When I try doing this, I've been caught up in a fishing expedition, and a couple times it took me almost 5 minutes to remove the key.