2005 Center Console Lock Issue
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Safety Car
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Safety Car
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I'm using a Saturn key. The Chevy key has been crossed to a Satrun blank. They're much cheaper than having a key cut at the Chevy dealer. The key has nothing to do with the lock failure. It's an exact copy of the key for the Vette.
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Melting Slicks
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Yeah, that's the ticket..you can get those blanks and the keys cut at any True Value Hardware. That is, assuming all the Saturn key blanks haven't been pitched!
Racer
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The catch on the plastic latch on mine is broken so I didn't think the lock would work. However, I tried it out and see that the locking latch is different (it's a metal latch that swings up when the key is turned) and mine works perfectly. I'm glad I went and looked at it.
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QUOTE=S2K;1573723432]OMFG! My car does have this! For 5-years I had no idea. Because of the shadows, etc., I never saw the small cut out in the black plastic. I had just thought that this was a plastic tab securing that portion of the console to the car. Even now I had to bend down and look closely. Wow...just wow. [/QUOTE]
Thall shall start cleaning interior to get to know inside of car better.
[/QUOTE] Thall shall start cleaning interior to get to know inside of car better.
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QUOTE=S2K;1573723432]OMFG! My car does have this! For 5-years I had no idea. Because of the shadows, etc., I never saw the small cut out in the black plastic. I had just thought that this was a plastic tab securing that portion of the console to the car. Even now I had to bend down and look closely. Wow...just wow.
Thall shall start cleaning interior to get to know inside of car better.[/QUOTE]You don't know how funny that is. The only one to clean my car is me and that is once per week. I cannot even use that as an excuse....
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You don't know how funny that is. The only one to clean my car is me and that is once per week. I cannot even use that as an excuse....[/QUOTE]
For you? It will have to be twice a week
Zaino does sell a leather cleaner and conditioner for the seats so that should get you closer and put you right in that neighborhood of that console lock on driver side seat.
For you? It will have to be twice a week
Zaino does sell a leather cleaner and conditioner for the seats so that should get you closer and put you right in that neighborhood of that console lock on driver side seat.
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Melting Slicks
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Zaino does sell a leather cleaner and conditioner for the seats so that should get you closer and put you right in that neighborhood of that console lock on driver side seat.[/QUOTE]I have the Zaino products. Been using them for 10 years or so.
It gets worse. Early on I removed the console several times to do things related to the radio.
Honestly, there is no saving me.
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The lock was deleted from 2006 onward, so I guess it is possible some late 2005s did not include it either ... Talon will probably chime in with the definitive answer.
To the OP ... no sympathy from those of us with no lock
In all seriousness, since I do not have a lock, I have never looked at one. Good luck!
To the OP ... no sympathy from those of us with no lock
In all seriousness, since I do not have a lock, I have never looked at one. Good luck!
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It gets worse. Early on I removed the console several times to do things related to the radio.
Honestly, there is no saving me.
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When I had my 2006 with the console lock, I never used the lock feature, and I suspect very few owners did. My Vette was always locked, and if somehow they broke in to it, a "locked" console would not have have stopped them from breaking it open and causing even more damage.
With that said, correct me if I am wrong, but did not the 2005/6 have a separate emergency key with the fob, I know my 2008 has the key enclosed in the fob. This would have made it more difficult to pull it out of the fob and lock/unlock the console, maybe this is why the console lock was finally eliminated.
Maybe Talon/Paul can provide the real answer.
With that said, correct me if I am wrong, but did not the 2005/6 have a separate emergency key with the fob, I know my 2008 has the key enclosed in the fob. This would have made it more difficult to pull it out of the fob and lock/unlock the console, maybe this is why the console lock was finally eliminated.
Maybe Talon/Paul can provide the real answer.
Yes, a separate key easily used to lock the console.
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I have a convertible and almost always drive w/ top down, often leaving it parked for short periods of time while I run into a store. I keep my radar detector, phone charger, etc in the center console when not using them.
Yes, a separate key easily used to lock the console.
Yes, a separate key easily used to lock the console.
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If you have a GMPP wait until something else needs fixing. The $100 co pay is per visit not per repair. So if you have two or three things to get fixed it's still a hundred bucks.
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