Car Completely Dead
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St. Jude Donor '15
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^^^I didn't think of that one....yeh, a bad fob, unless it's been run over, still wouldn't have a thing to do with the car being dead. Ooops. *egg-o on face-o*
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Burning Brakes
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Fob is only accessed when you request the car to do something and, if a FOB is not found at that point, the car will notify you of the issue. It can not possibly cause the car to be dead. You will always get a message on the DIC or a blinking light on the door, or the security light coming on indicating the car locked when it didn't see the FOB any more. Don't believe that? Experiment yourself after you get the car back. Your dealer is incompetent or at least ignorant of how a C6 works. Keep the old FOB if the dealer will give it to you which I doubt they will. Next you will need to reprogram all of the FOBs because I would also be willing to bet that the dealer won't bother to take the 30 minutes it requires (or use the Tech II) to do a long procedure programming on the new FOB. They will just do the few minute short procedure on the new FOB which means the new FOB will be #3 (or #4) which will not activate memory functions.
As far as all of the other issues they found in their "FREE! FREE! FREE! 47 POINT SAFETY INSPECTION!!!", I'd also be willing to bet they are just trying to get paid by GMPP for more unneeded work. That many things don't suddenly go bad without you noticing. Did you notice oil dripping? Did you notice coolant leaking? Do you have any idea what a "door sensor" is? I don't. But I do know the bill someone will pay will be in the high hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
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As mentioned before, THE FOB HAS NO PROGRAMMING TO LOSE!!! The FOB has a unique serial number. That's all. "Programming" simply tells the car, not the FOB, that serial number. The car, not the FOB, has permanent memory where it stores up to 4 FOB numbers. Once the car learns a number it can never forget it until you intentionally erase it or the RCDLR is replaced.
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Burning Brakes
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Actually the day the car broke down my mom said she saw a fluid leak and when the guy was towing the car he saw oil gunked on the engine aw I believe that they did fix something that needed to be fixed. I guess when you get a new FOB that have to initialize it to the car. Maybe I used the wrong word. There is a switch that routinely fails that opens the door not a sensor There are a few DIY fixes for it. They replaced this part. I didn't get any messages when the FOB failed so I agree that I think there is a larger issue. I wish I could find the real problem.
As mentioned before, THE FOB HAS NO PROGRAMMING TO LOSE!!! The FOB has a unique serial number. That's all. "Programming" simply tells the car, not the FOB, that serial number. The car, not the FOB, has permanent memory where it stores up to 4 FOB numbers. Once the car learns a number it can never forget it until you intentionally erase it or the RCDLR is replaced.
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