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Old July 18th, 2017, 9:46 PM
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We just purchased a 2017 Equinox which has an ignition switch which uses a key as opposed to a pushbutton start. We have 12 different drivers for this vehicle. The dealer states that he can only program 8 keys for this vehicle. Is this true? Is there a way to overcome this limit? Is there a chip in the key or are we only dealing with a FOB limit?
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It is a hard coded limitation of the vehicle's computer. There is no way around it.
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Ruley 73, thanks for the response. It never occurred to us when we bought this car that we couldn't cut all the keys we need. I wonder who decided that 8 was the correct limit.




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