Help! My key wont turn

[His Dudeness]

[quote author=His Dudeness link=topic=5987.msg53969#msg53969 date=1359238605]
no need to get your knickers in a twist :lol

I'm cool here, dude. I do appreciate your posting and thank you because you did give a solution to the problem along with Lewis that probably has saved me buying a new barrel. You also have been most helpful to me in the past....so kudos.

But that I needed to dispute your insistance on this "pushing the barel forward" was normal. I apologise if my dispute was a bit heavy. But I have no doubt in my mind that from 20 years experience with many other bikes, that any barrel that needs to be pushed forward or jiggled about in anyway is in fact dodgy. I felt that in the best interest of other Fazer 600 users and those who have yet to come, that this was important to be clarified here.

I personally would rather know about a problem with my ignition than being mis-informed and told that a problem doesn't exist at all. Al least it allows me the opportunity to make a few decisions then. I can either keep using the ignition with the "workaround" that was given and just keep an eye on it. Or I can use it more cautiously without the steering lock in case one day it has a major malfuction and that I get stranded somewhere. Or I can make a decision to just replace the barrel now. Being (innocently) mis-informed and told there was no a problem at all removes the opportunity to make any those choices above and could lead to a disaster down the road.
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ok