Urgent mse car keys!!!

pinkneonmartini

Hi guys I don't usually venture on to this board but after the success i had last week i felt this was something that i needed to share, as I haven't yet seen it mentioned anywhere on the site.

It's regarding my transponder key fob for my 53 plate toyota yaris! I have 3 keys, 2 of which have the plastics cased alarm buttons, and one which is just an emergency entry key.

Long story short, the plastic casing smashed to bits on Key 1, so i started using Key 2, which last weekend i smashed to bits. The buttons still work and the key turns but they're not too pretty to look at and are held together with mountains of gaffa tape! lol

So i rang my local toyota dealership and asked for two new keys, expecting something in the region of £50 a key.

NOPE!!!! £360!!!!!!!

it's £180 per key!!!!!!!

now i can't carry on using broken keys, for fear of the buttons packin in all together which would mean replacing my car's ECU (computer) at £1500 + labour + VAT.

SOOOOO i ordered a blank uncut, buttonless key from ebay! lol It's literally an identical key case with an uncaut key blade. I then took the buttons out of my mashed key, added a fresh battery, put them in the new key, got the blade cut ... and it worked!!! WOOP WOOP

total spend...... (drum roll please) .......... £10!!!!!

THATS A £170 SAVING PER KEY!!!

Now i'm not the kind of person to take things to bits to play with them so i was a bit dubious, but if you are able to get your sim card out of your mobile, well, thats about the same level of difficulty as this was, lol, and to think of all the times i'd paid £25 for batteries to be replaced when i could have done it myself for about 99p :mad:

Now i know for definite this works with Toyota key fobs, but from what i've seen and read online, apparently it can be done for pretty much any car brand. So if you're missing a key or using a mangled one like i have been this is definitely worth a go!!!!!! and if your not up for doing it yourself you can nip to your local key cutters. As an example i asked mine and they said for my pants toyota key would be £30, for my dads merc £50 (merc quoted £300 per key). So still a saving to be had!

McKneff

Good for you, its worth noting,

have to say this, youre pretty good as smashing key fobs eh.

pinkneonmartini

:rotfl:not so much smashing, as having too many keyrings/bottle openers/daft things dangling from my semi plastic keys and therefore turning them in the lock with all the weight results in smashed to bits keys :rotfl:

but my new key is living on it's own at the moment, i've gone all Gollum with it, lol.

philnicandamy

Hmm not as bad as an A-class merc I once had.......damaged to the key & the remote after leaving in an airport car park (I KNOW...I KNOW!!) they quoted £240 for one key!! and 4 proofs of ownership

Hintza

Come on OP own up how did you manage to wreck to keys? I I acn jusy about understand one but two?

pinkneonmartini

philnicandamy wrote: »

Hmm not as bad as an A-class merc I once had.......damaged to the key & the remote after leaving in an airport car park (I KNOW...I KNOW!!) they quoted £240 for one key!! and 4 proofs of ownership

FOUR proofs of ID!!!! thats just ridiculous! :eek:

pinkneonmartini

Hintza wrote: »

Come on OP own up how did you manage to wreck to keys? I I acn jusy about understand one but two?

check the 3rd post! lol i am indeed atleast 99% utter spoon!!!!!!!! hee hee

hale.berry09

anyone know of avoiding using Merc dealers for replacement keys? OK with ID but not the price they're asking !!

pinkneonmartini

if you don't wanna have a go yourself i would definitely head to a local key cutter. There are 3 on my high street which all offer replacement key fob cutting and programming, and for my dads C180 i was quoted £50 or less by every single one of them and this guarantees genuine merc keys personally i like ebay lol

oh and absolutely no ID necessary at key cutters

CandleFan

Very useful info - Thanks pinky! :T

pinkneonmartini

happy to be of help