I've been looking through the threads, and I've seem some on this
topic, but they were all pretty old. So I was looking to see if anyone
has any more information about this, or if they experienced it, what
the final outcome, or fix was for the problem.

I've got a 2003 Ion 3, that I purchased two months ago. It had 11k on
it when I got it. When I purchased it, it was approximately 35 months
old. November 2005, marked 36 months, and with that, the expiration of
my warranty. (I wasn't offered the extended service package when I
purchased the car.. so that's a different battle that we're fighting.)
So the dealership wants to do a $90 diagnostic.. to TRY and find the
problem, and see if there are any error codes.

THE PROBLEM:
It seems to be that when it is cold, usually 35 degrees or lower, the
car won't start. It seems to be fairly spontaneously. Sometimes it
starts, and others it doesn't. On the days where it doesn't, it acts as
if it has only been turned to the auxillary setting. The lights will
come on, as well as the radio. Although the odometer, or 'Message
Center', will display 'Service Vehicle'. The only other coincidence
I've noticed, is that my rear view compass with intermittently
alternate from the temperature, to 'ICE'.

Someone in my house has to be at work at 6am every day of the week, so
this is always happening early morning. The first time it happened, it
took about 20 minutes, and 15 tries to get it to start. About 10
minutes into it, it would try to crank, but never successfully turn
over. Once it did fire up, it sounded, and acted perfectly normal. And
drove perfectly fine for a about a week and a half until it did it
again. Each time I've had this problem, its progressively taken a
little longer to start. Now when it tries to crank, it sounds pretty
weak.. and then when it does finally start, the idle is rough for a
couple of minutes.

This has happened about 6 or 7 times now. I have yet to take it in for
a diagnostic, I've procrastinated because I'm a single mom, so $90 for
an 'if we can find the code' isn't something viable during the holiday
season for me. Although I'm finally going in next wednesday.

I found a video on one of the older threads at :
http://www.lust4sun.com/ftp/video/satrun.wav
that shows EXACTLY what happens to me.

Also most of the results that I've found have said something about
having the ignition switch replaced, and yet that still isn't
correcting the problem in the long term. And there's even a few cases
where the car has been exchanged for a newer one.

So if anyone can please give me some insight or advice about this, I
would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!