Originally Posted by
phil alvirez
sadly, we find ourselves in a place where technology rules, and any1 can sell anything without guaranteeing that it will work as you need-and we dont understand whats going on.
look at their ad:
Genuine Mopar OEM NEW Ignition Lock Set Assembly 2004-2008 Crossfire 5101014AA
New OEM Factory Part
sure any1 will buy it thinking (dreaming/expecting) that it will work, but the ad does not confirm that you will have your car running with it.
i, like zillions, am ignorant of all these facts, and am at the hands of those who sell them. no law to protect us, the little guys.
i remember an anecdote of a poor farmer that saw his chicken being taken by a group of revolutionaries and when he was protesting, 1 of them told him that it was for the good cause.
but other revolutionaries were doing the same. and then he added: my chicken dont know who steals them. they only know that they are being stolen
so all this chrysler/benz/mopar/whatever ends up leaving us at their mercy-as always.
the only thing that seems feasible is getting rid of the skreem.
Phil, it appears you have missed some related message threads on this. I certainly understand your skepticism, but I have a little more information than you on it. I purchased this kit, and so have others on the forum. It is a genuine Chrysler part number/kit. The seller has sold 7 on the current ebay listing, and 10 on a prior listing, with no related negative feedback. There is certainly debate on the forum as to whether or not they will work. I happen to have the Chrysler documentation for installing a virgin SKREEM, and both a DRBIII, and Starscan that have program functions to replace and configure a SKREEM. The documentation can be wrong, but why would Chrysler provision this kit? I've never personally done this, and I will acknowledge it could fail. However, I'm confident it will work if I need it one day for one of my three Crossfires. I'm not willing to waste a $500 kit just to prove it. However, I have volunteered in another post to help others locally who are stuck. Or I would do the replacement on one of my own cars, if others would split the cost of the SKREEM kit. One individual has shown some willingness to do that, but I warned his request to do an ECU change at the same time would complicate things and invalidate the test.
The SKREEM comes paired to the two keys "chips" in the kit so it is already set up to talk with them. The labels on these parts all have a matching code. The replacement process involves pairing the virgin SKREEM to the existing ECU. I forget without looking at the documentation but you to read Hex codes from the ECU using the DRBIII, and then going through the DRBIII prompted steps where at some point you have to enter the ECU codes. I started that module replacement function in the DRBIII and it first asked me to select a country. As I didn't want to mess up the good SKREEM in the car I stopped at that point.
BTW, related to your post, those performance boosters "chips" you plug into your car ODBII port are all scams. There are youtube videos where very good technical evaluations have been done proving so.