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Originally Posted by Manny_boy
A good locksmith can make you a replacement key with the correct chip in it.
If you want to bypass your chip, here's what you do (some alarm places do this too):
under your steering column, in the ignition wire harness, there are two very small orange wires, about 22 ga. (possibly covered by a white sheath). These are your passkey wires that lead to the ignition cylinder. Take a digital Multimeter and set it to ohms (be sure to use digital, and make sure its calibrated before you start). Check the resistance for the chip in your key. Buy the same ohm resistor from Radioshack. Cut the small orange wires and solder the resistor to both wires leading to the passlock module (not to the ignition cylinder). The passlock module will read the resistance and think that you key is in place and functioning correctly. 
(like Jeffcoslacker said though, this does disable the security feature of having a chip in your key) 
A regular key without the chip could start your car with this method. |
Wow! That is good stuff. I might have suggested that, but always assumed the chips would be irregular resistance, just so you couldn't do what you described. But I guess it makes sense that it doesn't need to be, after all, if you wanted to steal a car, you wouldn't have a key to interrogate for the chip's value. What if the chip is actually damaged? Does that ever happen, I wonder?
09-03-2004, 12:18 PM
