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I have a Question on a 93 Firebird V6 3.4 5 Speed that I traded for a few days ago. I've read & read & read on the forum before deciding to ask for some help to see if I could get an idea on whats up.
Some history as I know of it, this car, was gotten from a junkyard. The previous owners had a bad addiction and had taken this car to the junkyard to scrap in order to have money to supply their addiction. Being that I knew the scrapyard owner I traded it out of him with a clear title lol.
I've spent a total of 15 solid hours on cleaning the car finding bad things in it and making sure there wasn't anything illegal in it that would get me into any trouble if I was ever pulled over.
The accessory wire to the stereo does not work for some reason and after checking all wires & fuses I never did understand why & never did find out what is wrong there. But I just ran a wire into the accessory port of the fuse box. Now it works good with the key off/on.
As far as running wise, all the car needed was some tlc, major cleaning, fuses replaced, a battery, 2 tires & a tranny mount.
But My Problem with this car is that it has the Security Light lit up on the dash that stays on all of the time when I start & drive the car. But it has not given any issues with not starting. It all appears to be 'ok'. The ignition key that came with it (I've attached the photo of it) does not have a resistor in it, just a slick but odd looking key.
Where the steering wheel tightens up it had one tap gone and the 2nd one loose. I'm not sure if they had been in there messing with the VATS or not but it doesn't have any resistors in the orange wire and that wire looks like it has never been tampered with before. I even unplugged the orange wire to see if the car still started & it did start.
I've searched all up in under the dash on both sides of the car and in the middle & did not locate a bypass module anywhere.
Is the TDM only for years 96 & 97 or do I have one too/ could it be it?
And what about the TDR? Do ya think it could be it? It's purple/yellow wires have not been wired together or appeared to have ever been messed with.
I read on here that it could be in whats called 'fault enable mode' & not to disconnect the battery, well, umm, it was dead a few times after first getting the car and I had to jump it and it doesn't seem to have made a difference.
Or is it that the key is not the regular key? But yet it still starts & runs.
What should I do? Spend the money and get a regular key that has the resistor in it & then bypass the vats with resistors in the orange wire? I would like to get rid of this light & know that my car will not fail somewhere later down the road because of the vats. I don't know what to do, I'm scared it will mess up on me later on with it being this way.
Any ideas anyone ?
Thanks
Some history as I know of it, this car, was gotten from a junkyard. The previous owners had a bad addiction and had taken this car to the junkyard to scrap in order to have money to supply their addiction. Being that I knew the scrapyard owner I traded it out of him with a clear title lol.
I've spent a total of 15 solid hours on cleaning the car finding bad things in it and making sure there wasn't anything illegal in it that would get me into any trouble if I was ever pulled over.
The accessory wire to the stereo does not work for some reason and after checking all wires & fuses I never did understand why & never did find out what is wrong there. But I just ran a wire into the accessory port of the fuse box. Now it works good with the key off/on.
As far as running wise, all the car needed was some tlc, major cleaning, fuses replaced, a battery, 2 tires & a tranny mount.
But My Problem with this car is that it has the Security Light lit up on the dash that stays on all of the time when I start & drive the car. But it has not given any issues with not starting. It all appears to be 'ok'. The ignition key that came with it (I've attached the photo of it) does not have a resistor in it, just a slick but odd looking key.
Where the steering wheel tightens up it had one tap gone and the 2nd one loose. I'm not sure if they had been in there messing with the VATS or not but it doesn't have any resistors in the orange wire and that wire looks like it has never been tampered with before. I even unplugged the orange wire to see if the car still started & it did start.
I've searched all up in under the dash on both sides of the car and in the middle & did not locate a bypass module anywhere.
Is the TDM only for years 96 & 97 or do I have one too/ could it be it?
And what about the TDR? Do ya think it could be it? It's purple/yellow wires have not been wired together or appeared to have ever been messed with.
I read on here that it could be in whats called 'fault enable mode' & not to disconnect the battery, well, umm, it was dead a few times after first getting the car and I had to jump it and it doesn't seem to have made a difference.
Or is it that the key is not the regular key? But yet it still starts & runs.
What should I do? Spend the money and get a regular key that has the resistor in it & then bypass the vats with resistors in the orange wire? I would like to get rid of this light & know that my car will not fail somewhere later down the road because of the vats. I don't know what to do, I'm scared it will mess up on me later on with it being this way.
Any ideas anyone ?
Thanks
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