Jjdenby

2 hours ago, Demmo said:

thanks for the suggestion Dean

although this problem is spasmodic, I have a feeling that it may be the tumblers in the ignition switch. before I left on my last trip away in it I sprayed an electrical contact spray into the barrel. For the first two days where I was stop starting heaps I only had to knock the steering wheel a couple of times.  So I sprayed some more into lock and the remainder of the trip it was back to square one where the steering wheel is the immobiliser.  Think I will have to go find a wreck an have a look see an maybe try an ignition  swap, or just sell the outback and put the money into the xg that has been neglected over the years.  one less car licence may make the war office a little happier  

I have done this four about four months and its not helping anymore

Thank you everyone for the advise. I have allready disabled the immobiliser and i think i might be the smartlock module but ill will try every suggestiin. Its a bit hard for me to get parts for it because its 1997 and on top of that i live in south africa so its very hard to get spare parts for it 

Hii im new to the owners club

I have a slight problem with my ute. When you turn on the igintion to the on position everthing works but when you turn to sturt it al you hear is a cluck sound from the engine bay (probably the aircon clutch kicking in) i have read somewhere online that if you hit the steering colum against the dashboard it will start and it worked for a whine but now its not doing anything. The funny thing is that this only happens some times and not allways. And funny enough the owners manual says leave it on for 30 min and then it starts but this method does not allways work i would really like to get to the bottom of thus please