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Originally Posted by bighoss66
About a month or so ago we purchased a spare key from Home Depot could this be the problem possibly with the theft system>
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I have a '99 malibu and I've been using a spare key that was made at an Ace Hardware store for the last couple of years. There were a couple of times that the Theft light came on and I couldn't start the car. After waiting 15 minutes, I was able to get it started. Also, there were times that when I would be driving and the light would come on by itself. After getting to where I needed to go, I would turn the engine off then restart with no problem, and the light was gone. A few weeks ago, this would happen more and more frequently until I couldn't start the car at all. I let the car sit for a while then decided to try one of my original keys. The car started up every time until I went to use the duplicate key from Ace. For the last 2 weeks, I haven't had a problem with starting or having the light come on when driving.