C5 vats/key question
Thread Starter
Cruising
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 11
Likes: 0
C5 vats/key question
My son and I just finished reworking a 1998 coupe a few weeks ago. Paint & body, leather, rims and exhaust. Turned out great. A week later he hit a some spilled gravel on a damp back road with no shoulder and had a round with a barbed wire fence. I bought a parts car with everything we need to fix it. The drivers door was demolished in the wreck and the key cylinder is nowhere to be found. My parts car is a 99 model that has has both doors with locks and an ignition switch keyed alike. I'm planning on using both doors. My question is can I put these doors on, change the ignition key cylinder to the one I have that matches tha doors and get a key cut with my existing Vats resistence?Seems like it would work. The vats is stored in the BCM right?
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 3,315
Likes: 17
From: Near Jacksonville Fl.
My son and I just finished reworking a 1998 coupe a few weeks ago. Paint & body, leather, rims and exhaust. Turned out great. A week later he hit a some spilled gravel on a damp back road with no shoulder and had a round with a barbed wire fence. I bought a parts car with everything we need to fix it. The drivers door was demolished in the wreck and the key cylinder is nowhere to be found. My parts car is a 99 model that has has both doors with locks and an ignition switch keyed alike. I'm planning on using both doors. My question is can I put these doors on, change the ignition key cylinder to the one I have that matches tha doors and get a key cut with my existing Vats resistence?Seems like it would work. The vats is stored in the BCM right?
Just remember the console and glove box will be different.
Thread Starter
Cruising
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 11
Likes: 0
Good point. I hadn't thought about the glove box and console but I have those still in the parts car as well.
