Vats Issue
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Vats Issue
My Vats has been acting up. (1987 Base Coupe)
One Key I have starts car about 50% of the time, the other key works about 95% of the time.
When it acts up.
I turn the key and nothing happens.
if I hold the key in the start postion, After about 3 or 4 seconds the starter turns on a it Starts up.
Is this normal????
One Key I have starts car about 50% of the time, the other key works about 95% of the time.
When it acts up.
I turn the key and nothing happens.
if I hold the key in the start postion, After about 3 or 4 seconds the starter turns on a it Starts up.
Is this normal????
Last edited by Scotts97C4; 05-29-2013 at 04:07 AM.
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My Vats has been acting up. (1987 Base Coupe)
One Key I have starts car about 50% of the time, the other key works about 95% of the time.
When it acts up.
I turn the key and nothing happens.
if I hold the key in the start postion, After about 3 or 4 seconds the starter turns on a it Starts up.
Is this normal????
One Key I have starts car about 50% of the time, the other key works about 95% of the time.
When it acts up.
I turn the key and nothing happens.
if I hold the key in the start postion, After about 3 or 4 seconds the starter turns on a it Starts up.
Is this normal????
If you had a "relationship" with a parts store it would be good because generally the cylinder would be considered "non returnable". If the cleaning doesn't work it's the first check I'd likely do, you could drive yourself "crazy" attempting to check the resistance at the column base every time it failed to do the same check.
You could also take a resistor array of the correct for car and plug it into the connector at the column base, that would accomplish the same. If that establishes a crank and start every time then buy the cylinder and do the install. If you do the cylinder install you will need new keys, the cylinder will come coded to a mechanical cut and you would need that cut duplicated on keys with the correct resistance for your car.
Last edited by WVZR-1; 05-29-2013 at 05:33 AM.
#4
If it's cylinder contacts all the new keys in existence aren't going to improve the 95% that he mentions he's getting with the better of his two. Buying several and having them cut as a "first choice" is foolish, if it's indeed the cylinder all of those that have been "CUT" become "JUNK"!
#6
Try one of these.
http://www.corvettemods.com/C4-86-91...m-_p_5989.html
If it is still hard to start try this.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-t...nk-solved.html
http://www.corvettemods.com/C4-86-91...m-_p_5989.html
If it is still hard to start try this.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-t...nk-solved.html
#7
Burning Brakes
Bypass the VATS and be done with it. C4 Corvettes just ain't on the top of the stollen car lists. That's what I did. And what a relief it has been. I got tired of getting stranded.