Yesterday my security light came on and stayed solid all day while i was driving but i had no trouble starting it, so today i wake up go and put gas car starts up fine i pump my gas and try to start to leave and nothing just security light flashing. So i call someone to bring me my spare i try it still nothing i leave the key inignition for 3 minutes turned like your supposed to and i even tried ten minutes and still nothing. I ended up haveing to get it towed to allen samuels, anyway my question is for people that have had this problem what is the price range im looking at on getting this fixed?

 

sounds like you will likely need a new lock cylander. The lock cylander should be around $70 give of take plus I think you need new ignition keys to go with the new lock cylander so thats another $30 a key plus labor. . . . don't ya just love theft deterants?

 

Sometimes all it needs is a good shot of spray contact cleaner into the cylinder. The security light flashing indicates that the system doesn't recognize the resistance value of the key. This can be caused by grime on the contacts in the cylinder (or on the key's resistor pellet).

 

thanks guys i should be getting it this evening we'll see what the final price is hope it isnt to steep lol.

 

yup it was the lock cylinder $399.00 just for the damn part. Does anyone know for sure if you have to get new keys made?

 

I can't believe that the lock cylander costs that much. I know my cost(I work at a "Stealership") on a lock cylander for a 89 T/A with the pass key was like $60 and I know for that you needed new keys. I would thing that the newer ones would be the same.

 

The part retails for $101 and is available for about half that at gmpartsdirect.com. The part number is 26033387 (M6) or 26033390 (A4).

 

Too late now but you could have bypassed the Pass key system and would have been a whole lot cheaper and you woudn't have to worry about it anymore. Thats what i did. Whenever it happened to me, it happened at the worst possible time. I was trying to buy a new car at a dealership in dallas, I live about 2 hours away, and when the dearlership guy was going to take it for test drive it didn't want to start. Well i got it working by push starting and I later search in here and found instructions to by pass the Key pass. I had trouble starting once before but didn't pay attention, that time it started after a couple of minutes.

Abe

 

would have cost you less than a buck to fix... then you could have shopped around for the lock cylinder...

 

i dont know about less than a buck to fix lol, but the final total was 399.00 for the new lock cylinder, 2 new keys and installation. Probably should of got it towed to my house and done it myself but oh well live and learn thanks for all the help though.

 

The "less than a buck" he's refering to is for a resistor of the same value as the one in the key to bypass the system.

 

oh okay i was wondering what he was talking about nothing was specified.