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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: fireman sam on 25 April 2005, 22:01
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has anyone replaced a flip key recently?
lost one of my keys ages ago in the house somewhere and nearly lost the only key left yesterday on a day out- luckily an honest bloke behind me told me it fell out of my pocket on the grass !
real eye opener i would have been in real trouble!
anyway i'll stop waffling now- scene loads of 2nd hand keys on ebay recently and blank blades. people advertising therm say get them cut locally rather than dealers? but i always thought keys had immobilizer chips in them do you have to still go to dealers and pay for a new chip or can local key cutters do chips?
i def need to get another key it could have been very pricey yesterday
wow did i really type all that? :shocked:
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You'd still need to take it to the stealers to get it mapped to the immobilizer whcih costs £Â£Ã‚£Ã‚£'s!
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Yeh the key is cheap bit, only really cost about £5 (or summit like that) but you have to get them encoded sop the immobiliser knows its you and not some theiving scumbag.
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the blade can be cut anywere the key can be programed to work i.e open the doors etc by your self but the immobiliser has to be programmed i think via vagcom/or one of there other fancy computers. it aint that cheap. but hay if you aint got a key for your pride and joy then what.
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Any one has Opened that key to replace battery, cleane it...?
any hints? beacause the soft part covers all the key and im afraid to break it if i try to open it
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i replace my battery every year in my key fob, it comes to pieces easy mate, theres nothing to break so dont worry!!
:laugh:
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sorted one out for my self a fortune for the immobilizer part to be programed to the car but I'm sure it would have been a fortune like someone else said if i had lost both keys.
Anyway i was talking to my mum about it and she wondered if she could have flip key for hers.
Managed to do it for her, see link
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=21176.msg171499#msg171499
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Hi were did you get the key for it?
did you have to take it to vw cos i lost one of mine for my passat.
Regards
tote
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i got second hand keys off ebay (1 for me mum) got key blades cut local. i had to go to vw fro my immobilizer to be sorted but my mums was a straight swap out of her standard key
hope this helps
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how much did it cost to get it prgrmmed by VW mate.
Need a spare myself
blue
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£60 unfortunately :cry: and i had to leave the car with them for most of the day !
a rip off i tried all the locksmiths in the yellow pages and couldn't find any who could do something t do with the code being 'fixed' or 'rolling' one of them anyway. It definatly hurt the wallet for what it i but i couldn't risk having no key at the end of the day!
keith
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Got mine done at local dealers and the only charged me £40 and it took half an hour. allthough another dealer did quote me £59. Just shows it pays to ring around..
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£40 ! i don't believe i was told all dealers would the same the con merchants -ok everyone avoid gilbert lawton in manchester where did you go to get it at 40?
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Did they give you your code number ? Because getting hold of that is the time consuming thing.
Unless things have changed since I worked at a VW main dealer back in 2001
1. plug in reader to get immobilize serial code
2.fill out form confirming owner details etc etc and fax it to VW at MILTON KEYNESÂÂÂ
3.Wait for 10 minutes or sometimes a whole bloody day until they decide to fax back the code number
4.When the code is finally obtained it takes all of 1-2 minutes to re program both keys .
Make sure you get the code from them if you haven't already got it , so if there is a next time they should be able to do it while you wait
This is the only reason I can see that they could justify the differences in prices .
Mind you we used to charge 1/4 hour max + price of the key . :smiley:
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Got mine done at Lindvale colchester (Essex) left it there for an hour and it was done when i got back..