2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
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I got a call from a woman in Alpine Village whose 2005 Monte Carlo had been giving her grief for about a week. She'd had a key made somewhere else - not a dealer, not me - and it worked fine at first. Then a few days later the car started doing something weird. It would fire up in the morning without any issue, but by the afternoon she'd turn the key and the engine would crank, catch for a second or two, and cut out. She kept getting a warning on the dash pointing to the vehicle security system. She thought it was an electrical gremlin. Wiring, maybe. Or the battery.
It wasn't any of that.
When I got there and looked at what she had, the picture got clearer fast. The key she'd been given had the wrong transponder chip inside. Not completely wrong - close enough that the immobilizer accepted it during the initial programming session and for a handful of start cycles after. But GM's security system on these cars doesn't just check the chip once and forget it. It verifies across multiple cycles, and a chip that's close but not correct will eventually get rejected. That's exactly what was happening to her.
I read the chip in the bad key to confirm what I was looking at, then cut and programmed a proper replacement keyed to her vehicle. While I had everything out, I checked the fob battery too. The CR2032 was sitting at low voltage - not dead, but marginal - which had been adding an extra layer of intermittent weirdness on top of the main problem. Swapped that out so she wasn't going to be troubleshooting two things at once a month from now.
She asked me what the dealer would have charged. I told her a lot more, and that she'd have needed to tow it there first since the car wasn't reliably starting. Getting it handled in the parking lot, same afternoon, was the better outcome by a wide margin.
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