Q: What does it mean when the antitheft light stays on but truck dont want to start

asked by on December 21, 2017

My truck wont start the anti-theft light keeps staying on it doesn't do anything else when i called the wrecker he did something with key remote and it turned on i need to know what to do
My car has an automatic transmission.

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