Replacment Key

cbates1990

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Hi All,

When I bought the EXEO last year i was only given one key.

Phoned SEAT (Mon Motors South Wales) to be quoted £270 for the key and for it to be coded to the car.

I almost fell through the floor!

Has anyone had replacement keys done?

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RichL

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I'm guessing its the same method as VW where the car immobilizer has to be coded to the keys which can only be done from VW HQ via the dealers (Unless you know someone with a laptop and the right software) and if you buy a second hand key off ebay there's the risk that it cant be recoded.
 

cbates1990

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It's absolutely ludicrous how dealers can charge so much for one key, safe to say I won't be paying that.
 

Mr Bigglesworth

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Yeah the difficult bit is the immobilizer chip. Getting the main key, a blade cut and paired to the central remote locking is doable.

I managed to find an old audi key that was a tenner and it could be paried to my central locking, got the blade cut via ebay seller (took two tries) and then moved my immo chip from my spare non-remote key to new remote key to avoid having to get a new one done.

When i last looked there was an actual second hand exeo key on ebay (I linked to it in another thread here and its still there). With a new blade will take the cost to £60 so you then need to find out who can do an immo chip for you.
 

cbates1990

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Yeah the difficult bit is the immobilizer chip. Getting the main key, a blade cut and paired to the central remote locking is doable.

I managed to find an old audi key that was a tenner and it could be paried to my central locking, got the blade cut via ebay seller (took two tries) and then moved my immo chip from my spare non-remote key to new remote key to avoid having to get a new one done.

When i last looked there was an actual second hand exeo key on ebay (I linked to it in another thread here and its still there). With a new blade will take the cost to £60 so you then need to find out who can do an immo chip for you.


Do you happen to still know the link? All I can find is Audi keys.




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Mr Bigglesworth

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Think immobiliser chip is more complicated than on older cars and so not sure if this one can be done using vcds. I started looking into it but as I had a spare key, it was easier for me to transfer my one.
 

cbates1990

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I've heard a few horror stories with the cheaper vcds cables.

lajohnz I'm in South Wales.


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RichL

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I have an older edition of VCDS and it can't do the immobilizer coding (but it can do the central locking), so unless its something added in a newer release then you're barking up the wrong tree.

I think it's VAG Tacho you need.
 

Mr Bigglesworth

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I have an older edition of VCDS and it can't do the immobilizer coding (but it can do the central locking), so unless its something added in a newer release then you're barking up the wrong tree.

I think it's VAG Tacho you need.

That rings a bell from when I was researching it.
 
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