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Makes 🢒 Pontiac 🢒 2000 🢒 Firebird 🢒 Body and Accessories 🢒 Keyless Entry 🢒 Keyless Entry System Description

The remote keyless entry system performs the following operations:

    • Locks the front side doors
    • Unlocks the front side doors
    • Turns on the interior lamps
    • Releases the rear compartment lift window panel
    • Arms the universal theft-deterrent system, if equipped
    • Disarms the universal theft-deterrent system, if equipped

Vehicles that are equipped with the theft-deterrent system are also equipped with a panic button. Pressing the panic button activates the following components:

    • The horn
    • The parking lights

The body control module (BCM) receives the panic button signal. The BCM is located above the right instrument panel insulator on the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) module.

Important: The remote keyless entry system is intended to be used as a supplementary vehicle entry device. The remote keyless entry system is not intended to replace a door lock key. The remote keyless entry system is intended to be used in conjunction with a door lock key. The remote keyless entry system could be disabled due to one of the following conditions:

   • Radio frequency interference
   • Low transmitter battery power level
Due to the above conditions, the driver should always maintain access to a door lock key.

The remote keyless entry system operates on a 315 MHz radio frequency at a low energy level. If the system fails to operate from a normal distance, inspect for the following conditions:

    • There are weak batteries in the remote transmitter.
        The expected battery life is two years.
    • The transmitter and the BCM are not synchronized.
    • Trees, bushes or other objects are blocking the signal.
    • The system is in close proximity to one of the following radio transmitters:
       - A radio station tower
       - An airport transmitter
       - Mobile radios
       - CB radios

The remote control door lock transmitter is a hand-held item that is attached to a key ring. The transmitter has 3 or 4 buttons that control the functions of the system. The transmitter complies with Part 15 of the federal communications commission (FCC) rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions:

  1. This device may not cause harmful interference.
  2. This device must accept any interference which the device receives.

    3. This type of interference includes any interference that may cause undesired operation.