Passlock Fix - I was having the same problem on my grand am. After doing the key restart for several months it finally got to where it would never start.
The dealer wanted to charge me $1000 just for the parts to fix it and to be honest I would rather set it on fire then give them another dime.
I found that you can do the wire cut mehtod but this will only provide you a temporary fix. Eventually the other parts of the system will fail and you will be back to square one.
I found this site and they sell a bypass that takes passlock out of the equation forever. No more failing parts. They also sell a manual that will instruct you to build your own bypass if you are handy like that. I wasn't. They really saved me because there is no way I could afford the new parts.
Yet another reason why I will never buy a GM product again... something that is supposed to prevent my car from being stolen (I don't know why anybody would want to) actually prevents me from using it!!!!!!!
For 4 years I have had this car to mechanic's including a dealer, theft system light comes on, car won't start for at least 10 minutes, Have had numerous repairs, and computor scannings no one can seem to fix this problem, need advice
the passlock system are bad on the cars and should be recalled. the theft system blinks and you have 10 min. to wait. the fuel shuts off. this causes your starter to go bad from the miss starts. i'm late to work at least twice a week because of it. it states it in the manual as if they knew about it then decided to release it on the make line. als the 2000 cavaliers are on recall for the BCM (dash cluster in my case) but since my vin is not on the recall list they won't do it even though my dash won't turn on sometimes. so at night i can't see my gauges, but sometimes i can. i drive with my cell at the dash so i don't get a speading ticket.
- herget43,
Winter Park, FL, US
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