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How To Tell If You Have A Ford PATS Issue

Posted by John Eimer on

How To Tell If You Have A Ford PATS Issue

When you replace your PCM in a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury, the process is not plug and play if your vehicle does have Ford's OEM security - Passive Anti Theft Security or PATS. Most of these vehicles do have PATS and there are some additional steps which will need to be executed. Sometimes you can do these on your own. Sometimes you will need special software to complete this process. It will just depend on which vehicle you have. Ford also requires you have two unique keys to update the PATS system. So if you only have one key, or if you have...

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