Yup, know this has been posted numerous times, just checking if any new headway has been made as most post are dated. My 97 Seville SLS just did this to me yesterday.
I did have a 2nd pair of keys that were never touched since i bought the car in 05, but that didn't solve the problem. If not for Triple A I would 've had a long walk home. :hmm:
Got the "Starting Disabled" "remove key",......... did not get the countdown. Which apparently is the better, but not by much of the two.
Any pointers on this is helpful, if there has been any new discoveries made since the older posts.
Unfortunatley sir, I truly doubt if your keys are the problem.
My friend had the same car. We bought keys (they're vats mind you) to no avail. After trying numerous times to start the car I consulted a friend of mine. Mind you the car left my friend stranded at the golf course.
My other mechanic friend stated it was the ignition cylinder? I asked how? He stated go by a new cylinder and look at the wires on it?! We proceeded to do as instructed. After purchasing a new cylinder, I viewed to wires that couldn't be thicker than thread coming from the cylinder. I said what is this? I figured if i tugged on them too hard they might break.
Nonetheless, we take apart the steering column to find those same thread like wires in the steering column. Except one of them is broken away from the cylinder?! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
Well, the steering column is a tight and crammmed little area (that's why the wires are so thin). When you turn the cylinder to start the car, the wires move with the cylinder, RUBBING AGAINST THE INGITION LOCK HOUSING?! Well, after a few hundered times of being started, the threadlike wire frays and gives you an intermittent connection or no connection at all triggering the "starting disabled" message.
You can bypass the vats connection but I won't get into that now.
Yet I found that out after we got it runnining again.
I would guess that the ignition cylinder had been removed at some point (maybe to do work on the steering column, or switches) and the wires for the VAT system were routed the wrong way around the cylinder and have chaffed and broken...
Unfortunatley those wires, are TOO THIN FROM THE FACTORY. Ok, even if you wanted to run the wires that thin, GM couldn't have insulated them with something?!
This is a way too common thing with these cars. Now that I know when I see that "starting disabled.... wait ten minutes message", I know what it is.
Ok, pulled the codes and the most important ones,...ipc b2710, ipc b2750, are Passkey failure and pass key open,.............the other keep alive memory,..........
They break easily enough just with normal wear. If you do a search for pass key in the forum or google you will get a lot of results for how to bypass it.
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