We bought this car for my wife last October. It was fine for about 6 months and then one day my wife said that it wouldn't start. I came home later th at day and tried to start it and it started right up. We subsequently took it on vacation and put all kinds of miles on it and it was fine. Then two w eeks ago it did it again. This time I had made some en quires on this probl em beforehand and we've noticed the blinking padlock symbol flashing on the dash. Since that time it's happened a few more times. Every time it's fail ed to start there is the padlock blinking. We've had to perform the relearn procedure a number of times since then but with the increasing frequency t his is now happening, (twice this week), it looks like the hand writing is on the wall and I fear that the next time will be the tow truck.
So, first I would appreciate help in determining which Passlock, passkey, V ATS, (or whatever the damned thing in my vehicle is called) system we have in this car and then if someone could please direct me to the proper proced ure to permanently bypass and rid my life if this useless nuisance I would be very grateful. There are so many different procedures and so many differ ent systems out there. I just want to be sure I'm definitely going into thi s with my eyes open. For example some of these procedures mention cutting a yellow wire. Yellow wires scare me because aren't those for the air bag ci rcuits? I've really looked at the key and aside from the fact that there is definitely no resistor chip in it and I don't know about a transponder I'v e hit a wall with this. Thanks for any and all help. Lenny