1997 Chevrolet Malibu
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1997 Chevrolet Malibu
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Got a call around 9pm from a guy stuck in a parking structure near Conejo Community Park in Thousand Oaks. His only key to his 1997 Malibu was gone. Checked his pockets, checked the car floor, retraced his steps. Nothing.
He was already looking up tow trucks when he called me. Didn't have his registration on him and had no idea what a VIN was.
I walked him through it on the phone. Told him to look at the base of the windshield, driver's side. He found the 17-character VIN. Then I had him pull up his insurance app, and his registration was right there. With the VIN I already knew his key setup: B102 mechanical blade with a VATS resistor pellet, no transponder chip, no remote. Fifth-gen Malibu, first model year. Simple system once you know the resistance value.
I prepped the right blank and interrogated the VATS pellet resistance on site using my resistance decoder. The car had been sitting in lockout from his earlier attempts with a friend's GM key that had the wrong resistance. Had to wait out the timer. Cut the B102 blade, matched the pellet, and tested the ignition.
He drove home that night. The dealer was closed anyway, and they would have wanted a tow plus a wait for a VIN-cut key shipped to the parts counter. The VIN is the single most useful thing you can text me before I show up. It tells me the key profile, the immobilizer generation, and what to bring so I'm ready the second I arrive.
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