Immobilizer acting up

[piper6909]

This may sound crazy, but a similar thing happened to me when I swapped the ignition switch.

I had no idea what the hell happened. Out of desperation, I remembered once someone once told me that you can do a computer reset by disconnecting the negative cable from the battery and touching it against the battery terminal 3 times. Then reconnecting it.

I've never seen or heard anything like this before or since, but when you're desperate you'll try anything. So I tried it. It worked!


If that fails, Try what Particlewave said regarding the start lock relay. At the time this happened to me, I didn't even know a "'start lock relay" even existed.

[bigmac_4000]

Thanks guys for the new ideas. I have new information though. So after changing the ignition switch and nothing new happening I decided to try an experiment. I live in Ontario Canada where right now it's - 8 and half a foot of snow. So I put a micro heater in car on driver side floor matt on low. Left it for 3 hrs. Went out and car started first try. I let it run for an hour with heat on high high.

So either something has moisture in it, or something reset when I changed the ignition switch and sat for 3 hrs. What do you guys are of this new development. I'm going to google how to jump that relay you mentioned but I'm curious why the 3 hrs with low heat fixed it. Was it just time to reset or something dried out. If it was something drying out. What?