Oversight causes us to correct the Chevrolet back up open page

Chevrolet back up open

This is our fail! We updated both the Chevrolet back up open and start pages some time ago, as well as those for Honda and Acura. We then added a video to YouTube describing how to open and start the new Honda and Acura EV models, which are based on some GM EVs.

But we got it wrong! Something was bugging us and sure enough, while we had the Honda and Acura pages correct on the back up open, we had the Chevrolet page and the video wrong!

The older versions of the covered key hole requires the prying of a cap at the back of the driver’s door handle clean off to expose a key hole (far right). In the new Blazer EV and the Honda and Acura versions, only the top portion of the cap is removed (right), and in a far less aggressive way.

We corrected the page and pulled the video.

Regardless, we need to get our hands on one of the models to truly get a “handle” on how the process works. We’ll re-issue a video when we do.

Smart Keys or Intelligent Keys, or Access Keys – or whatever the manufacturer of your chooses to call them – that let you into your car and start it with just a touch use up their internal batteries at alarming rates, catching busy drivers unawares – even though the car had tried to warn you.

Our goal is to help you feel safe – and keep you moving or get you moving if at all possible – rather than leave you fretting whenever your key fob stops working. The instructions for getting into and starting most keyless start cars can be found on our pages – without roadside assistance.

The Honda/Acura back up open page is here and the Chevrolet version is here.

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