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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 01:39 AM
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you guys aint gonna believe this but guess what .... if you have a camaro or transam you can steal a pontiac grand am my g/f locked her keys in her 2000 grand am at my house and after 5 minutes decided to try my trans am keys and they unlocked her car lol, so if you ever need to steal a car if there happens to be a grand am close by and you have your f-body keys you can get into their car with your keys of course you would steal have to hotwire thier car lol.....
I in no way am saying you should steal someone else's car or attempt to, i just posted this up cause i thought it was funny that i could open another car with my car keys
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 01:47 AM
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alot of cars work that way I opened a friend of mines car wit a sunfires keys.
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 01:48 AM
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yeah it didnt really surprise me but i wanst expecting it to work stuck in my TA door key and opened it on the first try to a car 4 years newer and a different model
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 01:57 AM
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4 years is an unusual gap...
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 02:06 AM
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yeah that was the main reason i wanst expecting it with my keys
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 02:33 AM
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so...does this mean that my TA keys might work with a different TA
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 10:32 AM
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possibility
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 10:44 AM
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yeah, i'm sure there are only so many key combonations they make. my dad's old 91 F-250 keys would open my mom's grand marquis.
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I thought the grand am key was a completly different key?
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 11:41 AM
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My key just broke off inside some random dudes grand am, thanks alot..
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Shinerbock07
My key just broke off inside some random dudes grand am, thanks alot..
lol seriously, dont turn it that hard lol ..... i just put it in and turned it real gently to see if it would work, and it did, no force at all on it .... yeah it is crow it was really wierd
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lol seriously, dont turn it that hard lol ..... i just put it in and turned it real gently to see if it would work, and it did, no force at all on it .... yeah it is crow it was really wierd
Sounds like the cylinder was replaced at some point in time and they left all the tumblers out. I've seen stuff like that before. See if you can unlock it with a flat blade screw driver.
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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:14 PM
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oh yeah i tried a few things before that couple of other keys and my door key just worked perfectly, not really sure its the original cylinder also, her mom bought the car new and when she got a new one my g/f got the grand am

BTW anything going on today crow
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Shinerbock07
My key just broke off inside some random dudes grand am, thanks alot..
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 03:14 PM
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i just hope the grand am guys cant open our cars with their keys
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by z28_n_tx
i just hope the grand am guys cant open our cars with their keys

haha +1 on that!
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 06:34 PM
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They may be able to open it, but it aint going to start unless the key has the right chip in it!
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