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Need to replace a lost car key!

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  • scotsbob
    scotsbob Posts: 4,632 Forumite
    pingu_uk wrote: »
    Yep I walked the whole route again with a friend to find them but they were no where to be seen.


    You might want to walk the route again with one of you clapping your hands and the other whistling.

    Many keyrings respond to the noise of clapping/whistling and emit a beep to identify where they are.

    Wouldn't do any harm to try.
  • Crabman
    Crabman Posts: 9,942 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    scotsbob wrote: »
    You might want to walk the route again with one of you clapping your hands and the other whistling.

    Get a third friend to video that, send it to Harry Hill and you could earn £250 which will cover the cost of a new key :D
  • wantonnoodle
    wantonnoodle Posts: 284 Forumite
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    I would try the local VW dealership. It may have been handed in there.

    My dad found a Mercedes car key a few weeks back, phoned the local Merc dealership (helpful there was a dealership key ring on it but he said he would have called them nonetheless). They told him to post it to them and they would be able to match the chip in it to the car and from there identify the owners. He did this, and last week got a very nice thank you card from the owners of the car, who'd been reunited with their lost key.
  • pingu_uk
    pingu_uk Posts: 8 Forumite
    Fortunately I do have a VW dealership key ring on it. I have rung them a couple times to see if they have had anything handed it, but no luck as of yet. I still have my fingers crossed!
  • pingu_uk
    pingu_uk Posts: 8 Forumite
    Panic over! Someone handed them into the police.
    Thank you all for your help.
  • Call The locksmith and create the new car key. me also lost my car key 2 times and locksmith best for this..
  • prowla
    prowla Posts: 13,960 Forumite
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    We needed a key for a Seat last year, and I gritted my teeth and paid the main dealer. Timpsons were almost the same price.
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
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    A friend owns a car parts store and he does replacement car keys including key coded ones.. , its worth ringing round your local parts shops and getting a price..
    #6 of the SKI-ers Club :j

    "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,904 Forumite
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    Getting a new key or having your spare cloned which is what a lot of the locksmiths will do instead of creating a proper new key.

    But that wont erase the old key.

    Someone somewhere has a key to your car. And your home?
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

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