1998 Buick Park Avenue
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1998 Buick Park Avenue
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1998 Buick Park Avenue Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
Got a call from a guy near Old Mission Santa Barbara on a Saturday morning. His 1998 Park Avenue would crank but not fire. He had already tried it a bunch of times, which meant he was deep into the VATS lockout cycle, sitting through that 3-to-4 minute wait over and over.
When I got there, I looked at his key first. The little black resistor pellet in the blade was there, but it was grimy and the contacts on either side were corroded. Years of pocket lint and hand oils will do that. The Theft Deterrent Module reads that pellet resistance through two thin wires that run down the steering column to the lock cylinder. If the reading is off by even a small margin, the TDM kills the fuel injectors and you get nothing but crank.
I checked the pellet with my ohmmeter, matched it to the correct value out of the 15 options, and cut a fresh B97-PHT key with a clean pellet. Programmed nothing, because VATS doesn't store key data the way newer transponder systems do. The TDM just compares the resistance it reads to the one value it expects, in real time, every start.
Fresh key in, first turn, the Park Avenue fired right up. He sat there for a second like he didn't trust it.
The whole job took less time than one of his lockout cycles. A dealer would have wanted to tow it in and probably quote a new lock cylinder before even checking the pellet.
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