Thanks Tim. Its 95 deg out, cooled down from 100. I am in VA for training for 4 days (3 hours from home), I get home Thursday, today is Monday. I get a call from my Daughter (15). "Dad, Mom is mad, we are at chillies and she can't get the key into the car"! First I try to calm Mom down (no luck) I try to talk her through your "white plastic thing is stuck", She agrees, but can't find anything to move it. I call my Brother (lives next door), he runs out to chillies (on way to airport to pick up his wife). He angles the key torwards the front of car and forces it into hole! She is now heading home.
Anyway, once she gets home we got a couple things to try.
Can she lock the car with key #2 while key #1 is still in ignition?
if yes, I will have her drive the car until I get home. She can just lock the key into car while leaving it in ignition. (I hope she don't automaticly just pull it out, its habit forming).
If no, she needs to try to spray some wd-40 into hole by pulling key out 1/2 way (what a mess), then working key in and out. Only to eventuly pull key all the way out, Hoping it goes back in again.
Brother will not be back until around midnight. He did say she could borrow his spare Dodge Ram 50 (with no AC) until I get home.
Murphy sucks. This stuff only happens while I am away at training twice per year.
UPDATE: She got home, pulled the key 1/2 way, in and out while spraying a little wd40 into lock. She pulls key all the way out and it goes right back in. She notices she can't see that little white plastic thing anymore. My bets are it is still stuck, but now stuck in the open position, only to move again once it gets hot in car (tomorrow). Hope it don't get stuck again.
Also, you can lock the key in the car, but you need the use the 2nd key in the door lock to lock and unlock the car. (remote will not work).
Could the position of the wheels while parked have anything to do with this? I don't beleve so since the wheel lock is unlocked by turning the key, not by sticking the key into the tumblers.