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Originally Posted by Bassasasin
At the time of the Pass Key development the cars were of huge value. The security at that time did a great job protecting the owners of those cars. I would dare to suspect owners maintained possesion of thier porperty just because of this deterrant.
The newer key security is even more state of the art and more difficult to violate. During that era cars could be stolen with a screwdriver. This car needed a very smart thief, with a screwdriver, and a bag of resistors. No car is safe from a real smart patient thief.. but a real smart thief would be thinking of the economics of either stealing 20 cars or 1 very difficult one.
To disable it you can either put in a resistor, or get a module that will send the .. what is it 700 hz signal?... to the PCM.. Or get the problem of heavy keys or dirty tumbler key resistance reader replaced.
That was one, smart, moose. Too bad about the mountan lion with only a Ford.
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The 3 minute wait along with having to have obtained the key cut for the car and have 15 keys with that cut at $28 each retail customer price...
actually there's a box that switches from resistance to resistance if I remember what I've read. I don't recall it shortened the 3 minute wait however; I believe it was for dealers to retrieve the key resistor information if it was lost. I thought selling dealers kept a record of the keys and resistance.
The key resistor saved a coworker's Trans Am. She found it peeled that morning but they weren't able to start it by moving the ignition switch by force--they didn't have the resistance key.
Plus most thieves aren't that bright; watch COPS. Yes, there are some professionals. Hers might have been destined for one of several chop shops found around our area over the next few years. But the pickup guy wasn't up on the theft prevention built in.