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Old 03-20-2017, 08:02 AM   #26
Paul
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Originally Posted by P_Carfahrer View Post
I made an appointment for Wednesday with the local dealership to program the new immobilizer and key transponders. As far as the DME, I believe codes are based on the car vin and when programming a new immobilizer the service rep has to acknowledge the vin code is correct. At that point the immobilizer is "locked" to that vin code and cannot be reprogrammed.
That will work, I thought you were trying to do this yourself. I have a PST-2 and have done this. In the past dealers would not give the owner the learning codes, now most do.
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