Bruze

Wut?

Barspin

You don't have a key inside the FOB?

marinablu67

If his car is older then a 08, it's a different fob that doesn't store the key inside. I found that the newer fobs are very flimsy. There is a little metal clip that holds the key. The clip can fail, and the key falls out. That's what happened to me recently. I had to have a new one cut at the dealer.

FatsWaller

What year is your vette? Or, which style of fob to you have (left pic or right pic)

EVRose

I believe he has an 06 so separate key.

marinablu67

If he doesn't have a key at all, he'll have to go to a Chevy dealer with proof of ownership, and the vin number to get a new one cut.

GMJim

What year is your car? 2005 to 2007 used a separate key attached to the fob. If you don't have the key/s go to the dealer with your vin and ID to get a couple cut as others have suggested. 2008 and up (C6) have a hidden key in the fob. Also you need to read the manual. You'll find the info handy.

paldogy

Thanks for the advice about getting a key made. I have read the manual several times might have missed that part. For the smart a-- who wanted me to read the manual, tell me how to do it when the car is locked and the manual is in the glove box

cottonant

While I do love parts of modern day technology i.e. the additional horsepower, creature comforts, etc., I really, really miss some of the simple things in life; like the good old fashioned key

cottonant

Good vid Barspin; and one of the modern day tech tools that I do love: Youtube!

stingray71

All of the owner's manuals can be found online as GM provides them. Here is one for 2006:

2006 Owner's manual

mcandrew67

This whole thing reads like the rednecks who died in the bed of their pickup when it went into the lake, all because they couldn't get the tailgate down.....

GMJim

Try not to get upset about being told to read the manual. First thing I do when getting a new vehicle is go through the manual. A woman in our Corvette club that owned her C6 for 5 years didn't know how to get out of her car after the battery died. Fortunately she had the manual in the car and found how to get out. She showed up to the next club meeting telling everyone how amazing it was to have lever beside the seat to get out. Most of the people she was talking to had no idea about this either.

Check this story out. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ette/71053474/

LowRyter

go online, ask Mr Google and find a digital copy.

and it might be better to know that you haven't been the most grateful of folks asking for help.

LowRyter

I agree, electric door latches is pretty stupid. I think it was done to accommodate the window indexing and seal.

owc6

The electric locks help solve a very real problem: An extremely long door suspended by two hinges.

By making this lock instead of a traditional lock they were able to transfer all the moving mechanisms to the B pillar. This saves a ton of weight in the door itself (especially the very end of the door that is a long way away from where the door is suspended). This is also why the emergency handle is on the floor along with the cable and all the working parts of it.

GTs 58

Electric locks solved a problem? I think it has caused a worse problem.

Bruze

Of course, but the nerds and nerdettes (and they know who they are ) will go down with the ship.

Look on any old car forum and see how many inquiries there are about key problems -- and compare to how many fob threads there are here. Or mechanical door latches vs. electronic door latches, or basic electrical circuits vs. electronic "gremlins", or . . . the comparisons are endless.

Hopefully I'll be dead (or out of my mind in a nursing home) but in the near future IC engines will be outlawed, and "old" cars will be museum pieces because you won't be allowed to license them. We'll all be riding around in electric boxes that will NOT do burnouts and will NOT exceed the speed limit. All encouraged by nerds who never saw a computer chip they didn't like.

Just tonight I was headed to the local watering hole in my '17 Toyota pickup, which turned over 10,000 miles on the way -- so pretty much still new. I touched SOMETHING on the screen and the radio stopped playing. CD still worked but AM and FM had no sound. I punched everything on the screen (while driving the whole time) but nothing would bring the radio back.

This also happened last week, which corrected itself after shutting the engine off and re-starting ("rebooting"). Luckily the same thing happened tonight; I got to the bar, shut the engine off, restarted and the radio was fine.

However, on the way to the bar, with no radio, I was cursing a blue stream. I was trying to remember if I EVER had a radio that didn't work, going back to 1967 when I bought my first car. Nope. In 52 years, counting numerous junkers when I was young, I *never* had a vehicle that had a broken radio. Not until I bought a modern $32k rolling computer.

Ah, nursing home -- where are ya?

owc6

I guess they could have made the doors shorter and all you old farts could not be able to enter or exit.

;P

Life is a series of compromises. Thank goodness I'm not an engineer.

hawkgfr

Well if you got here then you can find manuals on line all day long....searchable no less.. Unless your lap top was in the car too.