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Old 03-31-14, 04:32 AM
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Thanks for the warm welcomes. I hope to be able to contribute in the near future.
To those that were questioning how to get a key. I was able to get a key for $50 from Ebay and have the dealer program the car to accept the key. You do have to make sure the numbers on the back of the existing key are the same as the one you are buying. There are two procedures the dealer can use to program the car to accept a key. "Add a Key" is supposed to add a key to the cars memory. This did not work for my Ebay key. That is either due to the car's key memory already being full or it had been used with another car previously. What worked is "Lost All Keys" function which allowed them to wipe the computers memory and add the Ebay key and the key that came with the car.
Feeling much better now that I have 2 working keys and it was cheaper than a dealer provided new key.
Hope this helps Rob
Old 03-31-14, 04:35 AM
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Thanks for that post. I'll be going to do the same thing this week, and was going to have to search, but now I don't have to. How much did you pay to have the key programmed?
Old 03-31-14, 07:19 AM
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They charged me $120 but I have seen other posts that said it should only cost $60 or less. It's less than 1/2 hour labor with their factory computer.
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