Originally Posted by wolfstalker

I'm in Riverside, IL, which is a near western suburb - about nine miles from the Sears (oops - Willis) Tower.

I would hope that someone here in the US who is tech savvy would see the size of the potential market for a bypass. I've imported cars and parts and there is always some pain-in-the-*** regulation that delays things. It would be a reasonable solution to just send the ECM and key and get this done here in the US - no parts, I take it, just programming. So simplifying the car by eliminating all this extraneous crap. This could be a nice little business who knows this stuff.

I assume that many/most of the people who are online here have not had the SKREEM problem, yet. Or they had it back when they could get the part from Chrysler or through Needswings and replaced it and have not had a recurrence. Good for you. I've never seen any suggestion of what causes this, except the part just fails. I assume it's some kind of board like the RCM with some memory chip or...... Stop. I can't talk about this at all as I know nothing whatsoever about this stuff - I assume it's something like a fuse burning out but that may be totally wrong.

I looked at that ebay thread someone posted and it seems there are lots and lots of SKREEMS out there, and whole groups of parts so you can replace everything connected to this system and start with a new set of modules, computers, keys and locks. Has anybody done that? I think this situation surpasses absurdity when people even contemplate attempting these run-around fixes when all it takes is FCA to stock and distribute the parts and codes. This situation is their fault for doing that. Some vague excuse like "changing supplier" shows they messed up, and left an unknown number of owners in the lurch, and all owners in jeopardy of instant inoperability.