Post by wfooshee on Mar 10, 2018 21:51:44 GMT -6
Ever since I've had my Aurora, it's had issues with occasionally, and sometimes often, not starting and giving me the invalid key 3-minute wait. Sometimes consecutively. My record is seven times... 
I bought it from my ex-mother-in-law when her husband passed away. I've been friends forever with my ex-brother-in-law, and describing the issue to him, he said his dad had installed a VAT bypass so it shouldn't be doing that.
While under the dash to replace the turn signal flasher, i found the little box, and it even has the label on it, "VAT bypass." Gold strike!!!! I followed its wire up and found a splice, and I have to say that whoever put this in did so very sloppily! I unwrapped the electrical tape from the splice, and found the wires had simply been stripped and twisted, and then wrapped, with no effort to keep them separated from each other! I'm amazed the car EVER started! All I can think of to explain it is that the wires were separated, stuck to the tape, and wrapped in the hope that whatever distance was placed between them would remain. Obviously a forlorn hope.... As the box, which was simply hanging from the cable and not mounted anywhere, would pull on the wires, sometimes they'd touch, sometimes not, changing the resistance reading to the car, and changing the car's recognition of my key.
All I had to do was solder the connections, wrap them separately, and go on my merry way.
It's been a solid week, now, and the non-start hasn't happened once. I've never gone more than three days before without at least one incident, and some days I'd have several, including consecutive non-starts, which was beyond annoying. So hopefully it's resolved!
I bought it from my ex-mother-in-law when her husband passed away. I've been friends forever with my ex-brother-in-law, and describing the issue to him, he said his dad had installed a VAT bypass so it shouldn't be doing that.
While under the dash to replace the turn signal flasher, i found the little box, and it even has the label on it, "VAT bypass." Gold strike!!!! I followed its wire up and found a splice, and I have to say that whoever put this in did so very sloppily! I unwrapped the electrical tape from the splice, and found the wires had simply been stripped and twisted, and then wrapped, with no effort to keep them separated from each other! I'm amazed the car EVER started! All I can think of to explain it is that the wires were separated, stuck to the tape, and wrapped in the hope that whatever distance was placed between them would remain. Obviously a forlorn hope.... As the box, which was simply hanging from the cable and not mounted anywhere, would pull on the wires, sometimes they'd touch, sometimes not, changing the resistance reading to the car, and changing the car's recognition of my key.
All I had to do was solder the connections, wrap them separately, and go on my merry way.
It's been a solid week, now, and the non-start hasn't happened once. I've never gone more than three days before without at least one incident, and some days I'd have several, including consecutive non-starts, which was beyond annoying. So hopefully it's resolved!
