View Single Post
  #6  
Old 05-26-2004, 06:47 AM
ponchonutty's Avatar
ponchonutty ponchonutty is offline
AF Enthusiast
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 3,432
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Re: Re: intermittent starting problem

Quote:
Originally Posted by tman2093
ponch, not sure what you plan to tell from the security light being on, mine rarely goes off.
If the light stays on, the car is in "alarm fail mode". Somewhere there is a problems with the VATS system. Usually this is a broken wire up inside the cyl. lock.

Since so many of these systems started have problems back in the early 80's, GM made a program change on the system where if certain "wrong" conditions were met, it would go into a mode where the light would stay on but you could start the car and drive it. Unfortunately, this doesn't always work as planned.

tman, aren't you a GM tech or something????
Reply With Quote