To anyone that reads this... and has the same starter problem... think back and think hard... Did you disengage the spring loaded tilt steering and have it slam to it's upmost position on a few occaisions or even at all?
From the ignition switch you put your key in and when you go to start the car it pushes a plastic rod down the tilting part of the steering colum which is connected to another plastic rod via a 3 or 4 mm wide "grommet" or rod that in turn pushes the last plastic piece over the "starter box" or starter relay switch and your car turns on without a problem. If you car does not shut off when you turn the key to the off position that 3 or 4 mm wide "grommet" or rod may have come loose between the two plastic rods. So was the case with mine...
I've yet to fix it because it's way hard to get to and I've got to get some torx wrenches to do it but I've unscrewed the starter relay box and manually push it to run and turn off the car... basically a nice way of hotwiring the car. So good luck to anyone else that unfortunately has that problem.
Also the MAF on my car is the idling problem... low voltage... any good ideas for replacement?
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