What does your local dealer charge for Corvette keyless entry remotes?

My Chevy dealer wants $159 a piece plus $35 for programming for each of my vettes (98 C5 coupe, 99 C5 'vert).

I'm curious to see what other dealerships are charging for new remotes and programming.

I'm done with ebay because the listings show new remotes, and 3 out of 3 times I've won - I end up with junk that doesn't work and won't program. First one was superglued together and cracked. Can't check the battery if you can't even open it. Second one was completely corroded inside from water and didn't work. The 3rd one only 1 button worked and it looked like someone tried to superglue the circuit board pieces back together. Each one was advertised as new, or like new and they obviously weren't anywhere close to that. The Keyles Ride site is run by one of those same lying ebay sellers, so thats off the list too.

What does your local dealership charge? I bet there's some that want even more than what mine is charging.

 

check with gene at fred bean
they are a forum supporter and have cost +10% on parts
gculley@fredbeans.com or 610.495.1700

programing is ez
it tells you how in the owners manual
what year is your vette?

 

$10 on eBay - programming is free and takes about 3 minutes. I bought 2 with no worries - original GM fobs - not knockoff cr@p or glued together nonesense.

 

did you check the seller's feedback on ebay?
did you leave negative feedback about the crap you bought?
i've always had good luck on ebay.

 

Also, Auto Zone has generic FOBS that work and they program them for free.

 

What about 2000's?? They are about $80 bucks on eBay, and the cheaper ones aren't offered for 00's?

Does anyone "refurbish" them?

Bueller? anyone?

 

I have a 98, is there any generic kind I could buy that performs the same 4 functions as the original under 80 dollars?

 

$159 is way too high for a remote. Try Fichtner Chevy or Fred Beans - both offer good prices. You can program the remotes yourself using instructions in the owners manual.

 

You can find them all over EBay and the programming instructions are in your owners manual. Others here will also have their version of programming instructions that work well too.

Bob

 

That's Here's a brand new one at Ecklers for $129.00

http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...PGLF8C5BW2BPB8

Here's the programming instructions for free. Tell the dealer to stuff it.

"Try to resynchronize the transmitter by pressing and holding the LOCK and UNLOCK buttons for seven seconds when standing next to the vehicle." This will attempt to resynchronize the security code in your RFA key fob transmitter.

When resynchronization is achieved the horn will chirp. If attempts to resynchronize your transmitter to the vehicle are not successful, you man need to match the transmitter to the vehicle.

To match the transmitter to your vehicle:

1. Turn the ingnition key to the ON position

2. Clear any warning messages on the Driver Information Center (DIC) by pressing the RESET button.

3. Press the OPTIONS button on the DIC several times until the blank page is displayed, then press and hold the RESET button for two seconds.

4. When the message FOB TRAINING is displayed, push the RESET button once. The message HOLD LK+UNLK 1ST FOB will be displayed.

5. Press and hold the LOCK and UNLOCK buttons on the transmitter simultaneously for 15 seconds.

6. When a transmitter is learned, the DIC will display FOB LEARNED and then prompt you to learn the next transmitter.

7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each additional transmitter.

8. Remove the key from the ignition.

The programmer mode will shut off if:

You don't program any transmitters for two minutes.

You take the key out of the ignition.

You have programmed three transmitters.

Hope this helps.

Paul

 

Thanks talon90. That just saved me some money. Mine needed reprogramming and was going to get it fixed in a couple of days by a stereo shop.

 

I found another site online that I'm willing to give a shot - The other KR site I mentioned before wants about $135 a piece with shipping for the 98 Vette remote.

They're 1/2 that price on ThePartsYouNeed site with the instructions included. I ordered 1 this morning.

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I'll keep you guys posted. If it works good, I'm going to order one for my 99 as well.

 

Thanks a lot for the good info. This is what's so GREAT about being a part of the corvette forum world!

 

Page 76 of the latest Corvette Central catalog has
97-99 for $109.95
00 for $99.95
01-03 for $39.95

 

Thanks for the Corvette Central source. I still saved a bit more through ThePartsYouNeed.com, now I just have to wait for the package to get here.

 

For the same remote, it's $74.64 on gmpartsdirect, and $91.06 shipped. I bet one of the supporting dealers here could provide a better shipped price.

 

on another forum I browsed I saw that GMPD takes like 2-3 weeks to ship stuff, and for what they charge for shipping, thats not cool.

 

 

I got my remote from ThePartsYouNeed.com in the mail today. 5 days isn't bad especially when one was a Sunday.

Sorry if my other post was confusing, but $135 was from Keyles Ride, and they're $84 thru ThePartsYouNeed.

Programming was easy, took about 10 seconds. I can't believe a dealership would charge 1/2 hour of labor for a 10 second job. Thats a good way to lose customers.

Anyhow, the remote works great and when I went to put in an order for remote for the 99 I noticed I got free shipping, so I bought a 2nd remote for the 98 and a pair for the 99. FINALLY I will have remotes that work and that I can use.

ThePartsYouNeed.com rocks!

 

O.K. That is solved. Now we need to work on your Call Name, and get rid of the RICE!