The vats acronym stands for vehicle anti theft system and is also known as pass key or personal automotive security system.
What is vats on a car.
It is commonly referred to as passkey.
Gm started putting vats on buick cadillac chevys and pontiac oldsmobile vehicles.
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 stands for vehicle anti theft system.
Vats vehicle anti theft system came out from gm on the 1986 corvette because corvette became the number one target of car thieves.
Each vats key has a resistor embedded in the key blade and each resistor has 1 of 15 possible resistance values.
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Later versions include passkeyii passkeyiii and passlock which uses no resistor pellet.
A car is manufactured primarily for carrying passengers has rear windows or space for them and a roof behind the driver.
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.
First introduced vats in 1985 on the chevrolet corvette and after proving successful was later.
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These resisters are often referred to as a resister pellet vats pellet or vats chip.
To confirm a 2 wheeled vehicle is a bike.
When a vehicle is bought as new vat must be paid to customs excise by the dealer.
The vehicle is now deemed to be vat qualifying.
Corvette thefts decreased drastically from vats.