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needing another key not fixing a bad one
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My issue is needing ANOTHER key not fixing a bad one.
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Threw away my "pill" when I replaced my key head, this place
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I know a lot of cars use preprogrammed chip keys, and you have to add a new key code to the car, but I also know there are one time program chips where you can read teh code form an existing key and put that code into a new chip.
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I know a lot of cars use preprogrammed chip keys, and you have to add a new key code to the car, but I also know there are one time program chips where you can read teh code form an existing key and put that code into a new chip.
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You basically end up with a cloned key that eh car can not tell between.(I know it worked with Honda and a lot of others Circa 2004 cars)
As I call around to get a new key, it seems like the dealers are allover the place with total costs (Key, 3 Button Remote Head, Programming) from $556 up to $876.
Is the $556 a good enough price not to keep looking, or is there more to be saved?
That is what I figured, but always open to listening.
Maybe someone make a key that is programmed by cloning.
I know that is a trick that works with some cars.
I just got my spare key done for my 987 like 3 weeks ago;
Key Fob (
suncoast parts
): $210.00
Key Blade (Hilton Head
Porsche
): $103
Programming at dealer (Hilton Head
Porsche
): $185
I bought a blank key blade at first for $36 from
Suncoast
but nobody can cut it (laser). The dealer said the NA HQ's laser cutter was broke down so they had to order a cut blade from Stuggart. I live in Atlanta area so the NA HQ would have been convenient. Didn't double check with the NA HQ if their machine was indeed really broke. So excluding the wasted blank blade, all in it cost me $498 for a f%$king key. No including the badass Pascha key chain I picked up from
Suncoast
for $100
edit: also beware, some dealers WILL NOT program a key fob that you didn't purchase from them. Because I bought the fob from
Suncoast
(a
porsche
dealer in FL) the asshats at Perimeter
Porsche
Atlanta would not do the 20 mins of labor to program an obvious OEM key. Because of their greed they lost a customer forever. The folks at Hilton Head did not give a rats *** where I got the fob and were awesome to work with.
I know a lot of cars use preprogrammed chip keys, and you have to add a new key code to the car, but I also know there are one time program chips where you can read teh code form an existing key and put that code into a new chip.
You basically end up with a cloned key that eh car can not tell between.(I know it worked with Honda and a lot of others Circa 2004 cars)
I don't know if
Porsche
is doing anything that prevents this, but guessing as I have not seen anyone advertise it.
As soon as you can find a source for this service - please let us know. I'm sure lots of people will be very happy..
Considering the economic incentive of $600 keys I think if it could be done, it would be being done.. the only one I saw claiming to do it was one "place" that was listed on the website for the tool I mentioned above. The address of the place was an apartment in a garden-apartment complex. Dunno if I'd be altogether comfortable having this "place" hack my security (aka immobilizer) computer and make a clone key.
FWIW, some people remove the chip from the old key and put it into the new one... you have to cut it out of the old one carefully, and then glue it into the new one, but it's one workaround.
The Pascha key chains are all sold out but Rennwerks has a cool pepita one out.
KeyRing - Pepita (vintage)
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I've seen the
before and it opens the frunk however, it does not address the issue of opening either the driver's side door nor the rear boot. Any suggestions?
When I needed a new key for my
987.2
, I paid $185 for the 3-button head (997-637-103-03 from a dealership), plus $53 for two key blades cut for my car (from
www.keysinthepost.com
), plus $160 for 1 hour of labor at the dealership to program the key, plus taxes. Grand total of approximately $430 USD.
Threw away my "pill" when I replaced my key head, this place
Car Computer Reprogramming | Metroplex Locksmith | Car Locksmith
put in a new pill and got the code from Porsche, reprogrammed to my car plus gave me a regular key for the car for $413.
I bought my first
Porsche
in July 2020, a 2015
981
, it came with one key. Called the local dealer in Beaverton, OR and they quoted me about $550. They also wanted to see the car in person and would need to prepay the $550 in advance and would order the key from Germany. Turnaround time was to be about 3 weeks.
I ended up finding an independent locksmith in Canby, OR called SOS Locksmith and purchased an aftermarket key from them. The only way you could tell it was aftermarket as it did not have the
Porsche
emblem on the top and no red panic button on the underside. Dropped it off for the day and they successfully cut a key and programmed it. Cost me $330 total.
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