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Car Key Cut

  • 29-06-2011 10:45am
    #1
    pudzey101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I've just bent my car key out of shape a little bit and need to get a spare one cut. I just tried a locksmiths but they said they could only cut me a key that would open the door and not start the engine. This would need to be chipped and would end up costing me €100. Any suggestions on a work-around?


Comments

  • #2
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,052 ✭✭✭Wossack


    is a transplant of the chip possible from the kaput key, into the new one?

    whats the car?


  • #3
    pudzey101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭pudzey101


    Wossack wrote: »
    is a transplant of the chip possible from the kaput key, into the new one?

    whats the car?

    no dont need chip atal, its 01 astra, key got bent just need new one to start engine:)_


  • #4
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,052 ✭✭✭Wossack


    chip will be needed to start the engine though, which is the crux of the issue here

    field this to the rest of the forum: would putting the newly cut, unprogrammed key, on the same bunch of keys as the broken key be enough to disable the immobilser?


  • #5
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Wossack wrote: »
    field this to the rest of the forum: would putting the newly cut, unprogrammed key, on the same bunch of keys as the broken key be enough to disable the immobilser?

    No,

    You need to transplant.


  • #6
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Wossack wrote: »
    chip will be needed to start the engine though, which is the crux of the issue here

    field this to the rest of the forum: would putting the newly cut, unprogrammed key, on the same bunch of keys as the broken key be enough to disable the immobilser?
    MugMugs wrote: »
    No,

    You need to transplant.

    No,you don't.It will work. Broken key has to be taped to the other key or just held very close :)


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  • #7
    alfreg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭alfreg


    Is it just the metal bit of the key thats bent? I bent a car key a few years a go and straghtened it in a vice with no problems at all. Vice like this one http://birdhouse.org/blog/2005/10/16/my-amy-vice/


  • #8
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    TestTransmission wrote: »
    No,you don't.It will work. Broken key has to be taped to the other key or just held very close :)

    Yes you do. I've tried what you've suggested. it's an Urban Myth.


  • #9
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Yes you do. I've tried what you've suggested. it's an Urban Myth.

    Has worked for me in the past


  • #10
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    I'll agree with TestTransmission here - Don't see any reason why having it on the same keyring wouldn't work for a 01 Astra.

    But a locksmith with modern equipment should be able to do you a fully working key for that for around 30 with a transplant or maybe 50 with a new chip. I'm 95% certain I got 2new keys (1 transplant, 1 totally new) for under 80 at the height of the Celtic Tiger. No point going to a dealer for a key for a 10yr old Astra.


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