Originally Posted by
Billy F
Appreciate the feedback. I assume you are saying that failure to start or engage starter after three tries is not a normal lockout function? Since everything else seems to be in order, I will check changing the SKREEM.
You assume wrongly, the three tries and then a lock out is normal and is to prevent a key with the wrong or no chip from starting the car. In your case as long as the key has the correct functioning chip there is something wrong with the SKREEM, the halo around the ignition switch or the wires to the SKREEM from the halo and hopefully nothing more serious than that.