Originally Posted by thomlan2

You'll need to remove gear shift cover, radio console cover and radio, and instrument cluster. This allows you to get to the three screws that hold the ingnition switch in place. I'm fairly handy and it took me 2 hours, half hour looking for screw I dropped in gear shift compartment.
Instructions I followed:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you...dsmobile_Alero

Good luck.