My '87 vette had a 'chip' in it, one of the very first things I did....and so when the car was sold, in went the stock chip.....emissions and VATS and all that crap....
sold the chip to another guy down here, years ago....
I think to remove any and all factory crap, long as you don't have to pass annual 'safety-emissions' tests.....
as it has failed, I have removed all the shifter interlock stuff off the '99 Escort, out of the Miata, and I bypass all of that I can in every car I have had, for years now....my '72 vette never had much of that to start with, another reason I bought a chrome shark....that and the end plastics on all cars today eventually sag and crack and one shot they are damaged....
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Ford's PATS is nothing like GM's VATS though. I asked about bypassing it and nobody knew of anything that could be done. VATS uses contacts for the chip to be read. PATS is a transponder/receiver, ford guaranteed me even if the opriginal key was found it couldn't start the van again because they somehow changed the code. Aside from what I was told I don't know exactly how pats is able to have it's codes changed but it doesn't seem limited to 15 codes like vats.
Maybe someone here can tell us how pats can be fooled
A quick Google:
Four ways to do it, from best to worst:
1. Go to any Directed Electronics (DEI) dealer and pick up DEI's 555F. It will bypass PATS during remote start, and you don't have to give up any of your keys. It comes with instructions. When programming the 555F to your car, you need TWO working Ford keys.
www.directed.com
2. Buy any of the universal bypass modules out there. DEI 555U, Audiovox AS-TCBM, et cetera. You will need to permanently install one of your Ford keys into the universal module, and those keys usually aren't cheap.
3. You can make your own hand-made 555U with a relay and some scrap wire, but it can be hard for a novice installer to get this to work properly.
4. Pry the little plastic plug out of your key head; the PATS capsule will fall out. Glue the capsule to the ignition cylinder. (You'll have to experiment to find a spot that will work.) You'll also have to remove the capsules from all your spare keys, since the car won't start if it sees two capsules at once. This method is cheap and easy, but your car is unprotected against theft. And if that capsule comes unglued, the car won't start, not even with the key.