My dad keeps on telling me the ignition key gets hot when he's driving. Never happened to me.
Anyone else have this problem????

 

THe ring light is probably loose and touching the key.

 

yep, every time i take it out it almost burns my finger, but i think it might have to do with the fact that the car is black, with black leather, and tinted windows

 

does tinted windows make ur car hotter?
i would think they woudl block some of the sun?

 

And the fact that your ignition key is physically inside your car thus eliminating the potential for the sun to reach it.

 

remember, black absorbs heat, especially here in the texas sun, it gets so hot in my car that touching ANYTHING burns, and im not talking, ouch thats hot, its , HOLY CRAP thats hot. ive actually had things melt in my car. Tools in the trunk even get mad hot.

 

 

I checked the key light and it's not touching. Checked all the wires and they're fine. Ignition works fine and the key only gets hot sometimes.
Car is maroon in side. I had my dad put a towel over the wheel key area when parked in the sun. Samething, sometimes get hot, sometimes not.

 

it's more due to conduction of heat from inside the steering column.

think about this for a few....

car sits in the sun allll day and gets REALLY friggin hot inside. since the whole car is hot for that long, all the metal inside the car gets hot.. that includes the parts inside the steering column.
Then you/dad hops in the car, stick the key in the ignition, and you head home. you're in the car 10-15 minutes.. the A/C works well enough to cool the air in the car off in just a couple minutes, but the metal inside the car is still friggin HOT.


now...... let's say the same thing, but different...
car's been parked inside all day where it's nice and cool.. you run to the grocery store and leave it in the sun for say, 15 minutes. when you come out, the interior of the car is burning hot, but only the air.. the metal hasn't had enough exposure to the heat to get hot yet.. so when you stick the key in and drive home, it doesn't get hot, because the metal inside the steering column isn't hot.


make sense?
It's just summer. This is normal. it's not a problem.

 

I guess that's a foreign concept as I live on the frozen tundra known as ALL OF CANADA.

 

your sun theory is partially right...

the tint blocks out light inside the car.
but the tint itself on the glass is black..so the glass itself gets hot (asorbs the light/heat) but at the same time it filters light from the interior to keep it cooler..(if u can say "cooler")