Car Key Keeps Getting Stuck in the Ignition

It’s time for a routine oil and filter change for our Subaru. It is a 2016 model and has about 88,000 miles on it. This car has driven all over the country. We took a southern cross country road trip to California the year I retired. And the next year we took another cross country trip to Washington state and back along the northern part of the country. And we used to visit my mom in Florida at least a couple or three times a year. Since the pandemic and my mom’s passing we haven’t been anywhere. I never thought our road trip days were over. But I digress. Within the last two weeks the ignition key keeps getting stuck in the ignition ans we are not able to remove it. Luckily if you put it in reverse and drive a couple of times back and forth it usually works. But these are the sorts of things that start to happen when the car begins to deteriorate. We waited much too long the last time and ended up having a major repair in Pennsylvania. That’s not a good thing. So we are starting to figure out what car we would update to when this one is ready to be traded in. I wanted a hybrid because we don’t have the where with all for electric plug in only - and it’s just not ready for prime time yet - especially when you only have one car. But Subaru Forester is not hybrid until 2025/26. I chatted with our Subaru dealer asking when they expected to start getting the hybrids. And since then I have had phone calls, texts, and email messages. We are not stuck on a hybrid but the Toyota RAV4 might be worth exploring. Maybe I can use that as a carrot to get a better discount on a new Subaru. This would be our fourth. So tomorrow we will get that routine service completed and hopefully the stuck key issue will be resolved. We’ll find out about the overall health of the car and see where we go from there. I really don’t want to buy a new car but I also don’t want to get stuck in a less than safe situation like the last time.