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Tooljunkie said
Years ago there was a rash of car thefts,all gm’s with tilt columns.
They would break the column by the signal lever and somehow manipulate ignition from the backside. One friend’s car was stolen twice in a month. Both times it was found in the same place with a free screwdiver on the floor.
The gm parts guy grew to hate steering column parts. I would joke with him about needing all the parts to fix a column, and he would tell me to f-off:rofl:

Back in Philly in those days, the car thieves would steal GM cars just to strip those tilt steering columns and sell them to body shops doing theft recoverery repairs.

I once worked on a GM car that had been stolen 3 times and the body shops actually installed the same stolen original column back in it 3 times at 3 different body shops. I had scratched a random mark on the underside so I could ID it. I thought it was funny as hell.

:lol: