Anyone ever had a problem with a hot ignition key? Not electrical hot, temperature hot. I'm deployed to Iraq, and my wife told me the key got really hot this afternoon after a 10 minute drive. Ideas??? It's a '99 S70 with about 109k, and yes, it's showing the ETM problem...

 

No idea, but thank you for your service to our country.

 

My guess would be the electrical portion of the switch needs replacement; theory is it's getting hot because of excessive resistance in the switch itself.

This assumes non-OE accessories haven't been added that are excessively loading the switch... or I suppose it's possible some OE load downstream of the ignition switch is drawing excessive current too, but if this is a high mileage car, i would start with ignition switch (electrical component).

Also, i would ck out xemodex for the ETM fix.