MY girl friend lost tbe one and only ignition key to my car. it has the infamous passkey. the locksmith wants 250 dollas. i cannot afford that. and i am going home to visit family tomorrow. 500 miles away. i need the car tomorrow. i have the door key. alarm chirper. but no ignition key...can someone tell me how to go around the ignition all together and just push button start it? thank you. pleez help. dealer cant make a key without another one to copy from.
thanks
rick

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Man if my camaro were a rice-rocket all those mods would give me what...easily 50-60 hp!!!

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ok...i got a mechanical key cut...20 bucks. but no passkey in it. now can i rig a switch....or do i have to have the passkey in it. (the mechanical key will turn to ON) but not start it.

 

piece of cake dude: measure the ohms on the chip in your key (mine was 640) and buy an identical resistor from radio shack (pack of five, about $.50) drop the panel under your steering column and find the two tiny yellow wires that plug into a harness - can miss them. cut off the harness on the end that does not go to the column, and solder a resistor you bought between the two. done.

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THERE IS NO RESISTOR IN MY KEY...ITS JUST THE MECHANICAL KEY. NO CHIP. THAT IS MY PROBLEM. THANKS ANYWAYS. I TRIED TO PUT KEY IN ON POSITION AND JUMP THE STARTER....NO SUCH LUCK. IT TURNS OVER BUT WONT START

 

LOL. The dude just said he lost his key! I'm sorry, that was just too funny.

You can also replace the chip in the computer with one that doesn't have the VATS stuff on it. But since you mentioned you were going somewhere today, I guess you don't have time to get one.

There are I think 12 or 15 different resistor values (someone here could say for sure). You could get resistors of each value and try one by one until you find the right one. There was a post a couple years back that listed all the values. Sorry I couldn't help more.

 

thanks JZA. yeah i think its 15.
i might just have to do that.
the vats disables hte injectors...so hte starter jumping theory didnt work. well...i dont know what to do.

also...see my post in tech.

 

Maybe we can get a list up of the different values of resistors for further vats problems
so far we have 2 of the 15,
mine was 680 ohm and he said his was 640 so only 13 to go.

 

Another solution would be to purchase a new VATS module & key. The VATS module programs itself to use whatever resistor value it sees the first time it is powered up.

Tim