Any remotes without panic button?

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wjburken

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Not on mine, at least the 02. I have to put the key the ignition and turn it. Not sure about the 08 Silverado.
I’m pretty sure you can, or should be able to, shut it off by hitting the panic button again. I know I could on my ‘02 Silverado.

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The permanent method is to disassemble the remote, and cut off the black part of the back side of the panic button. That little black pad is what actually makes contact on the circuit board. A quick snip with some end cutters and problem solved, forever.
 

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The permanent method is to disassemble the remote, and cut off the black part of the back side of the panic button. That little black pad is what actually makes contact on the circuit board. A quick snip with some end cutters and problem solved, forever.

This is exactly what I did on my remotes.
 

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The permanent method is to disassemble the remote, and cut off the black part of the back side of the panic button. That little black pad is what actually makes contact on the circuit board. A quick snip with some end cutters and problem solved, forever.

I'm going to have to do that as well I'm so sick of bending over and alerting the entire neighborhood/gas station/parking lot.
 

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For both my 01 Burbs and our 01 Hoe, opened up the fobs, little piece of electrical tape, wa-la. 5+ yrs and no more accidental panic hits, and it’s reversible.
 

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Went ahead and did this while at work because my system is down Haha. I trimmed the black pad a tad and if I mash the button it works. But not as sensitive as before. If It keeps freaking out randomly I'll just trim more or put a piece of tape.

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While we're on the topic, I'm having an issue with my key fob, and have for years. It will lock every time, first push, but getting it to unlock sometimes takes embarrassingly long. I've checked to make sure the battery is good, I've used alcohol wipes to clean the contact surfaces, and nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?
 

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The sheet metal surround of the battery, it’s solder connections break. Symptoms start as poor button push performance, intermittent button function, button pressure sensitivity as the it moves the internals from pressure and connection remakes. Any how, there are 3 solder points, check them all. Very VERY common issue on multitude of GM fobs of the 90’s and 2000’s. ALL of our fobs for all of our 01 burbs and Tahoe’s suffered this to some degree, (I usually put it off till it quit working all together). Resoldered the connection, fobs work like new.
 

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While we're on the topic, I'm having an issue with my key fob, and have for years. It will lock every time, first push, but getting it to unlock sometimes takes embarrassingly long. I've checked to make sure the battery is good, I've used alcohol wipes to clean the contact surfaces, and nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?
First, not all alcohol swabs are equal, shameless plug for BD alcohol swabs.
If you have a bit of an oily film on the contacts, clean everything and let it dry a couple times, the rubber button absorb oil and sweat it back out.
Nuclear option - only once you’re ready to otherwise buy a new fob. Brake clean. Don’t use it like you would an alcohol swab. Use a q tip or folded over corner of paper towel with the corner wetted, touch only at the contacts with a quick scrub, then immediately wipe clean with a dry paper towel. Assume brake clean will melt anything non metal it encounters, consider yourself warned.
 

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