2000 STUPID METRO!..ignition key won't turn

I AM SOO FRUSTRATED! CAN ANYONE HELP!?
I went to my dad's one day and turned the car off...well then the key wouldn't turn all the way back so i could get it out! my dad finally got it out and now it won't turn..so we went and bought a whole new steering column from the junk yard...well the key wouldn't come out of it either so my dad decided to put wd-40 on it and the key came out but now the same problem we had in the beginning we can't get it to turn forward or back ward but it will come in and out...anyone have any ideas!!!!!!!!!?????????? anyone know how to get the barrel out? ANYTHING ANYONE HELP!!!!!!!!!

yeah......don't drive a metro. :p

Sometimes when my steering wheel locks I cant move the keys back or forth. All I have to do is push the wheel one way or the other and hold it there and than the keys move. Tried that?

yeah..the steering wheel locks up when you turn it. im at a loss because i even got a new one from a junk yard and the same dern thing happened!!!

Did you try turning the wheel, and than moving the key though?? Even when it locks it can still be moved a bit. Sometimes I have to move it that extra bit to get the keys to move again.

One thing that might work , I forget what kind of car it was I had to do this on but sometime the key would get jammed up and it would be that the tranny wasn't fully engaged in Park. might want to push up on the shifter while trying to turn the key

And if it becomes too much of a problem, remove the cable that goes from your steering column to the shifter. It could be bent internally, and not completely settling into the "park" postition.
OMG, Muncie, IN!!! lol, just thinkin of "The Hudsucker Proxy" :wave: