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Old Nov 20, 2022 | 06:53 PM
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TDAH
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Default 2004 Xfire- smoke from steering column

I recently bought this car and my wife lost the key that was programmed to the car and worked as it should. I was able to put new batteries in a second key fob that was not working when we bought the car and it would lock and unlock the car but, she tried starting it and it ran for a second or two and stopped three times. I’ve read some other forms about this and understand this is typical behavior when the immobilizer fails. Compounding this issue, my son told me as he was leaving for his night shift job he saw the fog lights were on and for some inexplicable reason chose not to tell either me or his mother about it and it completely drained the battery. I recharged the battery and attempted to start the car again and the key fob would lock and unlock the car as it should. I followed the instructions in the manual to re-synchronize the key to the car I pushed lock twice and put the key in the ignition within 30 seconds. Again the car would start for a second and die. I expected this would likely happen. What I did not expect to happen was that smoke started rising from the steering column. Has anyone else experienced this? If so any guidance?
 
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