NO.
No, you can't bypass the SKREEM. Yes, I said it - the answer is NO*. Please, (directed to you and others) please stop posting "Let's bypass the SKREEM", you are simply showing that you have no clue what you are asking others to do. If it was that easy, one of us would have done it the first time our SKREEM failed.

What CAN be done:
You may very well be able to emulate the function of the SKREEM, therefore rendering the Key FOB's RFID chip and the SKREEM itself no longer needed insofar as allowing the car to start and run. This is how I am looking at it, to emulate the sequence that the ECM and SKREEM go thru at startup, that is, to get a device to respond to the ECM with "Key valid, proceed to start routine" when the key is turned to 'on'.

But it is going to take a lot of time for me to learn the CAN BUS architecture as well as OBD-II. So could everyone PLEASE knock of the incessant posting about how "Someone should do something"? And even if I pull it off, I'm still not sure about the arm/disarm of the Central Locking Pump when there is no SKREEM. I may get the car to start, only to find that the security system did not get something IT wanted and the alarm goes off as soon as the tow sensor detects that the car has moved. Are you starting to see how deep this goes? This is going to take a LOT of time - there will be no product or answer in the short term. Six months, perhaps. Unless Josh is way deeper into it than I think, even he (the MASTER) is a long way off. If this can be done, Josh will probably beat me to it. But I want to learn CAN and Arduino anyway so off I go.

Josh Chase is working on it, and I'm working on it. I think others are as well - and any of you can contact any company (several has been mentioned) to see if you can generate any interest in one of them producing such a product. But the product produced will cost hundreds of dollars. I can see, right now, a price for what I envision, of $450 to $500 per emulator if I can produce a working product. How many of you would pay that? How many would sell the car for parts instead of paying that?



*Some of you still think I am wrong. Fine, step up and show me I am wrong. No, don't make a bunch of damn posts that you THINK I am wrong, show me - produce the product.

And for hell's sake, don't post that YOU could do it if you wanted to - because if you are in this thread, then you DO want to do it and we all know it.