So many words I missed those few. Trying to read that sort of post on the phone is challenging.

 

@awesomehhr

I have a 2006 HHR also and I purchased it new. There are 2 MAJOR engineering mishaps on our car!
1. There is a hole under the front windshield(about the size of a bread box). It has a plastic baggie covering it & it will come loose. It will funnel water into the passenger footwell & damage your blower motor & resistor. YOU MUST FRIST replace the plastic baggie with plexi-glass or something similar-then you can address the resistor/blower(blower may only work in HIGH mode).
2. WE HAVE AN OIL COOLER ON OUR CARS(EARLY 2006 ONLY) and the seals will leak after about 100K miles. The problem is that it is VERY difficult to remove the front bottom bolt on the oil cooler. The stealership wants about 400 dollars to replace the seals.

Now.... your issue: My Stealership wants 95 dollars for key fob & 60 dollars to program it. I would have rather had them put the 60 dollar up front with the purchase of the key fob.

Good luck & I hope this helps.

 

Search "butyl patch". It did not come from the factory with a baggie, it came with a piece of butyl rubber glued over the hole. The fix will cost less than $10. It is incredibly well documented on this site.

"keyfob" also incredibly well documented. New fob at NAPA $65 includes programing module. Or new fob on eBay $15 locksmith or ANY decent mechanic to match to car.

 

Kimbo61 has the 5 speed , Awesome HHR is questioning the location of the remote door lock transmitter, and how did this get to be about the oil cooler o rings on the early 06 2.4 litre, geez its a 9 year old car , something's need replaced, please move on from it all being the stealership and all that jazz. They only would have had a 3 year warranty for the remote door locks and the water leak problem and a 5 year power train warranty for the the o rings
That expired 4 and 5 years ago, let it go! Obviously some have never worked at a dealership or even a local repair shop

 

[QUOTE=donbrew;768594]It is not your problem, but to answer the question : the RCDLR lives under the bump in the headliner next to the mirror.


donbrew. Is the above in red for all years ? Reason I ask, knowing that you and I sometimes find conflicting info, this is in my repair manual:

Remote Control Door Lock Receiver
(RCDLR)
Behind left rear quarterpanel. See Fig. 22.

 

[QUOTE=firemangeorge;768644]The book is WRONG, unless you have the 2-way remote system. Not many have that special order item, you would also have an antenna in the LR panel window.

The dealer tech fell for that when he went looking for it and told me I did not have one. It is there, I have touched it.

 

2011 HHR, 2008 HHR, 2003 Malibu, love all of those terrific cars. Eight fobs, with the same recurrent problems. 1) Pretty sure I've re-soldered the battery retainer in seven of them. 2) The buttons don't take long to stop making good contact. First you need to push harder, then then it quits. Cleaning the little conductive rubber contact works, but never for long. You can get replacement rubber contact pads really cheap on Ebay. Get several. That fix lasts longer. Use a pink pencil eraser to clean the copper contacts on the green board, too.

I did buy one complete new fob on line. Don't remember the price, but it was much cheaper than the dealer item. A local locksmith (who sells fobs for somewhere between the dealer price and the Ebay price) charges $25 to program it, but he didn't charge me extra to do a second one. Worked great, has a better battery retainer but in less than a year had the same problem with the contacts, just like the OEM. The battery failed early too. Hope that's due to the junky battery and not the board.

It's amazing that in about ten years, GM couldn't fix these two stupid little problems.

 

Or get a new supplier for these, my wife 03 Sunfire has had two battery changes in 12 years, none of these other problems!