Worked good

Since this came with no instructions I had to figure it out myself and failed. Took it apart apparently incorrectly because 4hours later I still can not get it back together. It’s not because I’m a woman, I seldom claim defeat, I just figured this would be a simple task. I guess I should have went to YouTube first. I should not have removed the silver part that would go on my keyring cuz now it has me feeling like I want to spend time in the mental hospital for a couple days. Also, now my original key fob looks like it’s been through WW3 on my bedroom floor. It’s almost 12am and I have to be at work at 8am and I hope I can get my car started with the guts of my key fob I now have in a zip lock bag!Edit: This $6 case almost cost me $235 but luckily the car dealership I bought my car from had a second key they were holding that they forgot to give me.

Does not fit with a 2014 chevy sonic. The key placement in this fob is off just enough to not work with my current cut key. If you are looking to get this key cut, it would be great, but if you are looking just to replace the buttons and keep your old key, this did not work for me.

great product

Good

Works as advertised.

Key fob case fit the original remote internals fine. Our original remote had a single middle button (whereas this case has 2 spots for middle buttons, with the remote start symbol on the right side). With minor trimming this case can provide unlock/lock/alarm functionality again (after swapping the key blade and internal board).

Très bon produit ça fonctionne très bien

Im may be a pain to open your original case this one takes a bit of looking to figure it all as there are no instructions on how to split it open. Once I solved it I was able to move my chip over and my existing key making a trip to have a key cut an extra bonus. cost 8 buck got to a dealer and pay at least 100 for them to reprogram your KEYS as they need any keys you have for the vehicle so they all match.

I found that the new case didn’t hold the actual key from old fob correctly. The release pin didn’t line up. So I used old release pin did a little filing on the plastic part to get it to line up. Will now, stay open but key won’t lock closed. Making this my back up fob. Circuit board fit correctly.

I opened the fob to discover it was defective because it was missing the circuitry inside that hold the battery and activates the key fob. i was unable to return it but i lost my money in the process and will not ever order this product again.

Everything is off by a thousandth of an inch. Parts from old remote will not work on new one. Old key will have to be removed from holder and installed where the blank key is. It is also off by a thousandth of an inch. It took 2 days to get the case changed over and in the end some of the casting had to be trimmed off for the battery cover to snap in once the battery was installed. The case is not casted exactly as an old one and that's the problem. If I had not had tools to work on cell phones and mini punches this would not have worked. Also, there is no instructions and most videos on line just show you how to change the battery. In all it was still cheaper than buying a new remote and having it keyed.

I ordered this as just a case intending to swap the circuit board and key from my original GM key fob. The original GM key fob had a button that had split away from the case leaving a hole.Getting the GM key fob apart was a challenge. YouTube videos seem to indicate it wasn't glued but also wasn't easy to separate the halves, and it wasn't. I ended up using a rotary tool to cut the old case apart, being careful not to damage the circuit board and key.Then, I thought I was home free. But, not nearly. The original GM key doesn't fit as is into the new case. The mechanism on the key that controls the opening and closing actions is made just a tiny bit different and the old key push button can't come all the way through the case.So, back to YouTube. It turns out this seems to be a universal issue with aftermarket cases. The case came with a complete key blank that you could go get cut, but I understood that's around $150.00 at the Chevy place.The actual key blades and the rotating section/key base are really two parts that are connected together with a tiny roll pin between the two. YouTube says to press out the roll pin and then swap the key blades to the new key base in the new case. Again, this is generally indicated as not being easy with the YouTube videos cutting away to complete the task off-camera. I had to really work to get the roll pin out. I ended up cutting a small finishing nail down to about 5/16". Any longer and I kept bending the nail when I would hammer on it. I had nothing to use to actually press the pin out. Neither does anyone on YouTube apparently.I first separated the new key blank from its base. That was the hardest. After doing that the original GM key was much easier. Then I mated the original GM cut blade with the replacement key base and managed to get a roll pin back in. I had to work at it a little to get it aligned so the pin would slide in. But, it eventually did.Then, putting everything back in the new case, I ended up doing about 3 rotations on the spring to get it springy enough to flip the key open. That's not all that hard, but you need to watch them do it in one of the videos to see what I'm talking about. The spring that goes in the middle of the key base has to be twisted 2 to 3 complete rotations to create enough tension. You do this by placing the parts together and then rotating the top of the case clockwise 2 to 3 times. But, watch one of the YouTube videos for this to make sense.The car has an ignition interlock that reads a chip. The Equinox apparently has the chip built on the end of the circuit board, so moving the circuit board takes care of it. In some cars, that chip is another thing buried in the case.I got the new case snapped together and everything works. This would have been so much easier if the key blade and base had matched the original GM part. Maybe it's a patent thing that keeps them from copying it exactly. I don't know. I ended up ordering a second case, since they are cheap, just in case this one falls apart as the original did. The original lasted 11 years though.