TEynwerent making quite enough money apparently so,they took a $1 key and turned it into a couple hundred dollar remote start key fob, AND thye limit you to,a certain amount of the new expensive keys. If you lose more than the allotted amount, they have to replace the whole “anti-theft unit” at a much higher price, znd then you start all over with new keys, which you have to buy in addition to,the new anti-theft unit
Gone,are the days you can walk into an aubechons or Lowes znd get a replication key made for $1,which actually starts your car.
“they took a $1 key and turned it into a couple hundred dollar remote start key fob,”
The ‘feature’ was not a part of the quoted design. It was discovered by some user that a sequence of button presses would start the car.