Our monthly contest winner for December is Mark Gilmore and his Suburban. He tells us the story of his Suburban with 130,000 miles on it. After spending money on a transmission swap and an expensive Dual AC fix… the decision was made to keep the truck forever and run it until it was dead. This sounds like a great plan and you know we’ve all been in THAT situation before. Sometimes you have enough money into it, that you can’t bail out if you wanted to. So everything
MONTHLY CONTEST WINNER – OCTOBER 2014
Our winner of a full refund for the month of October is Dale Novak from Tampa. He tells us the story of his 1999 Suburban and the dreaded security light. After returning from a 3 month trip, he decided to get the Suburban back in action. Knowing that the trip would be a long one, he had disconnected the battery to save it from dying over the 3 months he’s be away. Unfortunately after hooking the battery back up, the truck would not start. The
MONTHLY CONTEST WINNER – SEPTEMBER 2014
Our monthly contest winner for September is Vanessa Rosa from Rhode Island. Like most people who visits our website, she has been experiencing the intermittent “No Start” issue on her 2006 Saturn Vue for a very long time. After weighing her options carefully, she decided to go with the NEWROCKIES PRO Module. Here is her story. I’m a 26 year old female who has a tendency to “FREAK OUT” at the slightest problem with my 2006 Saturn Vue. Flat tire? FREAK OUT! Need to check my oil? Ummm…So
MONTHLY CONTEST WINNER – AUGUST 2014
Our Monthly Contest Winner for August is Eric Knowlton from the great state of Alaska. Eric is the owner of a recently resurrected 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche. Eric says that he loves his Avalanche. He has owned it since it was new, and he is for the most part, the sole driver of the vehicle. But after a small hiatus from driving due to illness, the beloved Avalanche failed to start. Much like many people when they first encounter a security issue, they start trying to fix what you know
MONTHLY CONTEST WINNER – MAY 2014
This story comes to us from Jeffrey Aragon in New Mexico about his 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood with a 350 engine. Like a lot of people, Jeffrey was skeptical and found himself kind of scared to purchase our Pro Module. He discussed the situation with his wife and they came up with a plan of action. They decided that spending a little bit more money on this “last ditch effort” wasn’t so bad since they had already spend around $1500 at the mechanics and Dealership. The Dealer even told him to scrap the
MONTHLY CONTEST WINNER – JUNE 2014
This story comes to us from Mike Rutledge of EL SEGUNDO California about his wife’s 2004 Saturn Ion. He told us about how his vehicle started the “Spiral of Death” in 2011 but he had no knowledge of the cause or a solution to the dreaded SECURITY light. Much like many of us, the car would refuse to start, he’d have it towed to the mechanic, and it would amazingly start back up again when they tried it. If you’ve ever had a security issue,
GM Passkey Bypass: NEWROCKIES Inc and Scout Troop 980 to save an old friend!
For this event NEWROCKIES provided Utah Troop 980 with a simplified version of the PRO Module’s design that they could build on their own. Building a GM Passkey Bypass was a perfect fit for their Electronics Merit Badge and the only way to save an old friend! We are so grateful to the Scout Master Benjamin Warren, from Utah, for this letter and we thank him and the Troop for their valiant efforts, and for permission to publish their story and fantastic photos! It’s scary
How I removed the PassKey system and saved my Buick in a weekend
And here comes me, happy as a lark, no money in my pockets, a job waiting for me every morning and the only things I owned were my family and my car. And I didn’t know anything about GM immobilizers and anti-theft systems. With a coffee in my hand and my head in the clouds (or vice-versa I don’t remember…), I get out in the morning breeze ready to face my new day, but just in time to discover that my 95 LeSabre that always
The Untold Story Behind GM Security Systems
Beware of the so called GM factory security systems or immobilizers, they hide behind many different names given by the auto industry to make them look more effective and advanced. It’s not clear today whether those systems were really born with the innocent idea of preventing theft, or instead with the untold target of making money circulating faster. They systematically end up killing cars and often forcing their legitimate owners to give up their hopes and junk them just for that only reason. And it’s
MONTHLY CONTEST WINNER – JULY 2014
Our winner for July is Linc Thomas from Florida and his 1999 GMC 1500. Like most people who visit our website, Linc went out one day to start his truck only to find that it would start for a few seconds, and then turn itself off. So he starting searching around the web and found us here at NEWROCKIES Inc. After reading through our website and educating himself on GM’s security system, he decided that the Passlock had to be the problem. and that we had the perfect