I've had possession of my C6 for 1 week now. Due to some things, I only have one FOB and one key - both together of course.

So last night, getting ready for our club's Christmas party, I accidentally locked the Fob/key in the rear hatch area. Of course I had auto lock enabled so that was that. I pushed the button up under the license plate frame to no avail. Crap.... so we took our C5 to the party instead.

This morning I had the idea to try the button again only this time I would hold it down and move my body around in an effort to act a reflector for the signal. After 10 seconds of button holding, voila! The hatch pops open, I grab the FOB/key and immediately enter the car and disable auto lock.

I should have stopped there....

As the C6 is equipped with OnStar and I noticed they were running a 3 month free trial, I figured what the hell. After all, if I lock the FOB in the car again, they can unlock it for me!

So I signed up on the web went into the car, pressed the OnStar button as the website said to (after turning on ACC of course) and was getting the account set up and my particular unit registered. The voice at the other end of the phone said to "please hold and don't touch anything until I return, which will take a few minutes". Fine, so I sat in the car waiting. About a minute later, everything seems to go dead. Nav radio went dark and the DIC says "No FOB Detected" when I repress the ACC button. Ok fine..

I remembered from reading the manual about placing the FOB in a slot in the glove box so I do and the green RUN light comes on. OK fine, let's try starting it. Click and no starter but the dash acts as if ignition is on (signon message on the DIC any everything). Then it says "Speed limited to 80 MPH". Wonderful, so I hit the stop button and shut it down. I call OnStar on my home phone (as the car was in the garage) and they say "Sorry, our technical dept. is closed until tomorrow. Try the car again and same thing - "No FOB Detected" and the same failure to crank. Just a click. The lock and unlock buttons (as well as the trunk release) seem to work but it's hit and miss as to whether or not the drivers door will actually open.

I'm so pissed I could spit.....

 

Makes you miss the old standard key fobs doesn't it? Sometimes technology can be your worst enemy. I'll drink a beer for you and good luck.....

 

Remove the battery terminals . Wait a few minutes. put the terminals back on. Hope it helps. Good luck

 

So, you're to live your life according to their schedule, not yours.

 

Sounds mighty frustrating... New car for you... That's got to suck...

 

Yeah, that's ridiculous.

 

Your car battery is dead or dying. Try charging it. If this recurs, get a new one.

 

Tried that....no go.

 

I seem to remember something about if the FOB is in range of the car for an extended period of time (without the alternator charging), the battery is drained more than usual? Hmmm, forgot about that

Just put the charger on and the system was immediately drawing over 10 amps. 10 minutes later it was down to 8. Both are high readings so maybe the battery *IS* low. Let's see what a couple hours of charge time does

Thanks for the idea!

 

Doesn't happen. You can leave the fob in the car all night. Won't discharge the battery. Doesn't draw any juice. An old wives tale from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

 

I'm sure you realize this but you really don't need the FOB for anything other than proximity to start. I have my car programed so that it locks unlocks and starts without having to remove it my pocket.

Hope you resolve your problem soon.

 

 

 

True! Charge the battery.

My guess is that the battery was low from sitting before you bought it. Then you haven't driven it enough in a week to get it back to full charge. Then sitting in it waiting for Onstar drained it enough to make this happen.

 

 

Actually, I had driven it pretty much every day last week, as recently as yesterday (and drove it a bit yesterday too).

After charging for a couple of hours, it fired right up and everything seems to be ok now. As it is an '07 I'll take it to a dealer to check the battery and have it replaced under warranty if it's not up to snuff.

Thanks to all for the helpful ideas

 

Waste of time. It might have done something for antique Vettes, but in a modern Vette the only thing disconnecting the battery does is cause the car to forget its windows indexing. Everything else in the car uses non-volatile memory and will pick back up right where it was when you disconnected power.

 

That blowes Ken hope you get it all worked out, have not had one problem with my 06 nock on wood sent you a PM the C6 was great tonight in the snow, now I know I can drive it any time in any weather and get aroung great good luck.

 

The battery will cause strange problems. Charge full or try a different battery.

 

Hello kenhorse there is a recall on that problem give your dealer a call just had mine fix hope this helps good luck