It is commonly referred to as passkey.
What is vats on a car.
The following are not cars.
Introduced in other models in later years.
Corvette thefts decreased drastically from vats.
Each vats key has a resistor embedded in the key blade and each resistor has 1 of 15 possible resistance values.
It is not a.
A car is manufactured primarily for carrying passengers has rear windows or space for them and a roof behind the driver.
General information the pass key pass key ii or vats as it s called in earlier gm vehicles uses a resistor mounted in the key blank to confirm that the correct ignition key is being used to start the engine.
Vats vehicle anti theft system came out from gm on the 1986 corvette because corvette became the number one target of car thieves.
The vehicle is now deemed to be vat qualifying.
Gm started putting vats on buick cadillac chevys and pontiac oldsmobile vehicles.
Vats stands for vehicle anti theft system.
To confirm a 2 wheeled vehicle is a bike.
The vats acronym stands for vehicle anti theft system and is also known as pass key or personal automotive security system.
When a vehicle is bought as new vat must be paid to customs excise by the dealer.
A van for vat purposes is a vehicle with 3 or more wheels that is not a car.
If the buyer is vat registered they may be able to claim back the vat following their purchase depending on the type of vehicle and vat scheme.
Many people call the resistor pellet a chip due to the common misconception that it is some sophisticated digital circuit to identify the key to the car.