Please Help
Melting Slicks
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From: Saskatoon Sask.
Don't know what "programming" you are referring to. Your key has one of 15 resistor pellets. Did you get the same value pellet as your old key?
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From: Compound in the Grove, Ga.
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St. Jude Donor '16
Are you referring to the key fob? for 93-up?
Safety Car
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From: Minneapolis Mn
Long as you got a key with the correct resistor on it, there's nothing to program. Take an ohm meter and check the resistor value on an old key vs. the new one. I once helped a friend get a new key for her car. I ohm'd the old key and requested the right key which the dealership cut. Ironically neither the dealership nor I checked the new one till we got home and it didn't work. Turned out the new key did not have the resistor value listed on the peg board it was hung on. Once got the right key cut, all was well.
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From: Compound in the Grove, Ga.
2026 Corvette of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
2025 C4 of the Year Winner - Unmodified
2024 C4 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
2020 C3 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
2019 C4 of Year Finalist (performance mods)
2018 C4 of Year Finalist
2015 C4 of the Year Finalist
St. Jude Donor '16
A bit more information may have been a help. Could be a Vats issue.
1. Year, key turn?
2. Does it start at all as in engine turn over?
3. Lights work?
1. Year, key turn?
2. Does it start at all as in engine turn over?
3. Lights work?
Melting Slicks
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Drifting
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Turn the car on. Let it sit and the security light will after 4 minutes on my Lumina go out. Then shut the car and start. If that works it's the VATS. I tried to bypass the starter the VATS kept shutting the car off. Now I just sit and listen to the radio until the security light goes out. Shut the car and start. Good luck
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Heel & Toe
Joined: Nov 2019
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From: Richmond
Good News
Great news Vett Family, I found the problem and the solution on my car. After one week i discovered that the pink wire off the battery was starting to break. I repaired it myself for just 3.00. I was frustrated Tuesday and called the Corvette shop in my area lol, they told me over the phone that they were not able to get to my car till December 11, and from what I told them it was doing dude said it would be like 800.00 not 8.00 but 800.00.... IM SO NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT. BUT anyway it's fixed. Thanks for all the help.
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Heel & Toe
Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 21
Likes: 9
From: Richmond
Good News
Great news Vett Family, I found the problem and the solution on my car. After one week i discovered that the pink wire off the battery was starting to break. I repaired it myself for just 3.00. I was frustrated Tuesday and called the Corvette shop in my area lol, they told me over the phone that they were not able to get to my car till December 11, and from what I told them it was doing dude said it would be like 800.00 not 8.00 but 800.00.... IM SO NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT. BUT anyway it's fixed. Thanks for all the help.