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Learned Something New

AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2006 in General Discussion
Anyone familiar with with the show Alaska the last frontier on the Discovery channel? Ive seen a few episodes and not the greatest show on earth. Anyway. one of the main characters on the show is Atz Kilcher. Son of a Swiss immigrant Yule kilcher.

Anyone remember a singer from the 90s and still today Jewel? Jewel Kilcher. http://www.jeweljk.com/about.html

Wonder why they never mentioned that on the show?
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This just shows your never to old to learn!
    One of my cars is a Buick. Somehow two of the spare keys had gotten lost. So I had a key made at the local hardware store. You guessed it, it didn't work because the keys for that year are chipped with a little transmitter.
    So off I go to the dealer and buy two new keys. Not cheap and on top of that they charge extra to "encode" the keys. So I had the keys cut at the hardware store and took them back to the dealer.

    Now to "encode" the keys the service manager just took the original key and started the car. Then stopped the engine and within 5 seconds inserted the new key and started the engine. And repeated the same operation for the next key.
    You could have knocked me over with a feather.
    I asked how much for that little trick, and the manager told me no charge, but went on to say that for a Caddy that little trick is worth about $500.00

    Learn something new every day.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thats Good to know[8D]
    How much do I owe you?
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    New to me also. Thanks.

    Steve
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  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    ... and $100 for a Jimmy![:0][:0][:0]
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  • hk-91hk-91 Member Posts: 10,050
    edited November -1
    the first thing the dealer told me about my truck is that the keys had anti theft chips in them and that the keys were about $70.00 apiece and that if i had the dealer code them that would be an extra 100.00 if you look in the cars manual it will tell you how to code the new keys. my truck requires more then just starting the care with the old key then the new key. some weird combination on having to turn a few switches on while doing it.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You read the car manual?

    I'm impressed. I have never read one all the way through.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • dlrjjdlrjj Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hk-91
    the first thing the dealer told me about my truck is that the keys had anti theft chips in them and that the keys were about $70.00 apiece and that if i had the dealer code them that would be an extra 100.00 if you look in the cars manual it will tell you how to code the new keys. my truck requires more then just starting the care with the old key then the new key. some weird combination on having to turn a few switches on while doing it.

    Mine is the same way. I got two spare keys worked into the purchase price when I bought it, and then programmed them via the manual.[:)]
    Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is an art form.
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  • jimbowbyjimbowby Member Posts: 3,496
    edited November -1
    [8D]-My new Xterra came with two encoded master keys and FOB's---

    --plus a Valet key that operates all locks and is the ONLY one that will lock/unlock the glovebox--

    --[:D][:D]--JIMBO
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You got a car manual? Man, I gotta get a new car...
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    You got a car manual? Man, I gotta get a new car...


    My 90 Ranger came with a manual...then again, I DID buy it from the original owner.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I locked the key in my City pickup one day (GMC) and couldn't find the spares. I called a locksmith that we do business with, he burglarized the truck, and set about making a couple of spare keys for me. He had the GM blanks with the microchip already installed and also had the machine that encodes them but had to call a special General Motors number and give them the VIN to get the proper code to program the key. After talking to the dude at GM he handed me the phone and the guy on the other end, after asking my name and my company name, said, "I'm going to ask you some questions and I want you to only answer them with a 'yes' or a 'no'." He then proceeded to ask me if I was being car-jacked or robbed, if I was giving the locksmith permission to duplicate my keys, and other stuff like that.

    What a big deal over a damn duplicate key. [:p]
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    You got a car manual? Man, I gotta get a new car...



    I bought a 91 Olds Toronado a few years ago. Had the manual in it. Also the window sticker....It was a $41,000 car in 1991.

    Now that we have 2 new cars, we both have manuals.
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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  • woodshermitwoodshermit Member Posts: 2,589
    edited November -1
    There are some factory audio systems that have to be recoded if the battery is disconnected.
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  • joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm quite glad I own a old '95 Toyota Forenunner where keys are $2.00 ea. at the local locksmith or hardware store. Has security gotten out of hand?? Same as everything else. Maybe its time we go "way back" to when a liberal asked Justice Holmes if he thought it was right to hang horse theives just for stealing a horse. His reply was "We dont hang people just for stealing a horse, actually to keep people from stealing
    a horse." Where has our old fashioned logic gone to??
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    You got a car manual? Man, I gotta get a new car...
    I got a manuel, CHILTONS from auto zone!!!!!!!! [:D]
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  • Jeepgod2002Jeepgod2002 Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    they do the same sort of thing with the buick/cadillac "low tire pressure" light on the dash....if there is a loss in tire air pressure the light will come on, once you fill the tire with air the light still stays on....there is a reset button iside a panel on the side of the dashboard (where the drivers door closes snug up to the dashboard)
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