1996 Oldsmobile Silhouette
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County
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1996 Oldsmobile Silhouette
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1996 Oldsmobile Silhouette MECHANICAL-KEY Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
Got a call from a guy parked near Rincon Beach Park in Ventura. His 1996 Silhouette's keys were stolen out of his bag while he was down at the water. Not lost. Stolen. That changes the job.
He was already thinking about what happens if whoever grabbed them comes back tonight and just drives away. That is a reasonable thing to worry about.
With the VATS system on these, the security lives in a tiny resistor pellet on the key blade. The ignition cylinder has two contacts that read the resistance, and the Theft Deterrent Module, which GM mounted behind the dash on this generation, decides if the value matches. If it does, the fuel injectors fire. If it does not, you get a three-minute lockout and no start.
I measured the resistance value off his spare, confirmed it was one of the 15 standard VATS pellet values, and cut a fresh pair of keys with the correct pellet matched to his vehicle. Then I checked the ignition cylinder contacts because on a 1996 with almost 30 years of wear, those little pins inside the lock get corroded or bent. His were borderline, so I cleaned them up.
Both new keys started the van, doors locked and unlocked clean. The old stolen keys still have the right resistance value, so I walked him through the option of swapping the VATS module to a new pellet code if he wanted to fully kill the old keys. He said he would think on it.
Whole thing took about 25 minutes at his van.
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