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Offline corgi

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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #10 on: 04 February 2015, 08:54 »
It snapped is very passive...

How did it snap? That would require some force... Did the key-snapping fairy come by? I hadn't noticed a weakness...
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #11 on: 04 February 2015, 09:18 »
I took the key out of the ignition after driving for about 50 minutes and it felt a little odd. Got out the car, locked it with the fob then went to push the blade back in to the fob.

That was when I noticed the blade was bent at the base by about 45 degrees. With very little pressure, and I really do mean very little pressure, I wondered if it would bend back, but it immediately snapped at the base.

I have no idea how it bent in the first place as it was completely fine when it went in to the ignition. It certainly didn't get knocked during the journey so it's a total mystery. Unless it was the can of Irn Bru that I drank?
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #12 on: 04 February 2015, 10:09 »
That is odd...

Irn Bru... made in Scotland fae girders? :smiley:
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #13 on: 04 February 2015, 11:11 »
Aye!
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #14 on: 04 February 2015, 13:29 »
Quote from: corgi on 04 February 2015, 10:09
That is odd...

Irn Bru... made in Scotland fae girders? :smiley:

Ahhem..cough.... and also in Milton Keynes  :laugh:
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #15 on: 04 February 2015, 17:54 »
Go to place that can cut car keys and just get a new blade cut.... push out pin on fob, retrieve the bottom part of old key, put new blade in and push pin in again. Won't cost much.
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #16 on: 04 February 2015, 20:33 »
The car is only just a year old. No way I'm fixing this.

The key is with the dealer, which they better be replacing!
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #17 on: 05 February 2015, 00:05 »
Key doesn't break for no reason :rolleyes:
I have never seen a blade break (not even managed to do that on hire cars with frozen locks).
It's easy to spot from fracture line if it was material fault or impact fracture though.

PS: Cost of cut blade is probably less than 10£ - rather than waste time to drive to dealer twice I'd just get new blade. It'd have to be very obvious material fault for me to go and argue with dealer.
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Offline Mark V GTD

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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #18 on: 05 February 2015, 10:14 »
I think its the principal involved here - the OP bought an expensive car and then felt very let down at dealers response to a small problem a year or so down the line.....
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Re: Immobiliser urgent help needed!
« Reply #19 on: 05 February 2015, 21:09 »
The Golf is a nice car :) I would not call it expensive though, it's still bread and butter model not a McLaren ;)

I understand where you're coming from but I've personally never seen a key blade brake by itself, I doubt the dealer has either.
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