Broken key

obi604

Hey

Double whammy today. Car battery flat and then was using physical key to open the door and the bloody key broke.

***See attached pictures**

Seems like it just needs to be soldered maybe.

Does anyone know of who could fix this ?

I am based in Galway.

Kenny Logins

That blade is meant to come out. You just need a new blank and transfer that broken bit over. Try adverts or ebay.

(I have one here in front of me, but I'm in Cork. Sorry).

Toyotafanboi

Exactly, if you buy an uncut key blade you will get what you need. The "coded" part of the fob is seperate from the bit that is snapped and can be swapped over.

You will see a little pin that can be pushed out to remove the new uncut blade and your existing one will fit in.

This is what you need:
Ebay replacement blade

You can buy these from a dealer too but they are more like €40 iirc.

elperello

If you are in a hurry a good independent locksmith might be able to help.

Toyotafanboi

Or you could get get a key from a scrap yard and harvest the bits you need, it's very easy to do. That key is used on virtually every VW group vehicle from the late 90's until the present day.

obi604

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Exactly, if you buy an uncut key blade you will get what you need. The "coded" part of the fob is seperate from the bit that is snapped and can be swapped over.

You will see a little pin that can be pushed out to remove the new uncut blade and your existing one will fit in.

This is what you need:
Ebay replacement blade

You can buy these from a dealer too but they are more like €40 iirc.

Thanks.

When you say uncut key blade, does the key then have to be brought to a key cutter to sort it ?

I don’t see the little pin you talk of.

I’m confused, am I just completely swapping out the silver key part ?

Toyotafanboi

You already have a cut blade that can be reused.

There is a pin that goes through to keep the blade in the fob. It looks like your existing one is lost but a new one will come with the new blank key.

So you order the bit I've linked, remove the pin, remove the uncut blade and slot in your old blade and replace the pin.

I've marked in red the track on your old key that the pin runs through.

obi604

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

You already have a cut blade that can be reused.

There is a pin that goes through to keep the blade in the fob. It looks like your existing one is lost but a new one will come with the new blank key.

So you order the bit I've linked, remove the pin, remove the uncut blade and slot in your old blade and replace the pin.

I've marked in red the track on your old key that the pin runs through.

Thank you, sorry for being thick. I thought you were talking about a different pin.

So if I’m just replacing the blade in to a brand new key fob, how will the new key fob work, does it have to be re programmed etc ?

Esel

It's not a new fob, just a new blade housing,

Toyotafanboi

Esel wrote: »

It's not a new fob, just a new blade housing,

Exactly, the bit with the buttons is the coded bit and you will be keeping your old one of those too.

All you really need the new part for is to rob the hinge

obi604

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Exactly, the bit with the buttons is the coded bit and you will be keeping your old one of those too.

All you really need the new part for is to rob the hinge

Right. I’ve tried un assembling the current key fob. But seems to be difficult. Is there a trick to it or just force.

Toyotafanboi

Disassembling you mean?

Video on how to swap the blade
https://youtu.be/pRxt4BO4UVU

Video on how to removea the buttons part, you only need to do the first part up to 00:10, just pull hard
https://youtu.be/s0_wBePgn0E

obi604

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Disassembling you mean?

Yep, thanks for correction

Can’t seem to pull it apart so it’s broken up to give me one part like the eBay link.

The layout of this :

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/192233329000


Is different to the ix35 key here :


https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/391790109748 (Picture 3)

Toyotafanboi

Lol I thought you had a VW key, looks very similar, sorry.

Don't know if the same applies to the Hyundai key but it looks like it does. Sorry again!

obi604

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Lol I thought you had a VW key, looks very similar, sorry.

Don't know if the same applies to the Hyundai key but it looks like it does. Sorry again!

No probs.

Any ideas on how to remove the buttons part ?

Toyotafanboi

Looks a little different for a Hyundai key but not impossible.

https://youtu.be/8tUowgZ8eSw

obi604

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Looks a little different for a Hyundai key but not impossible.

https://youtu.be/8tUowgZ8eSw

Yeah. Was having a look at that video. He is doing a complete overhaul though. He removes the battery, transponder, circuitry etc Think I just need to swap the key blade silver part.

Esel

If the metal blade holder on yours is cracked like the one in the video, you could try filling the crack with Araldite or similar epoxy resin after reseating the blade.

Kenny Logins

obi604 wrote: »

No probs.

Any ideas on how to remove the buttons part ?

There's a screw under the VW badge.

Hang on, that's Hyundai?

obi604

obi604 wrote: »

Yeah. Was having a look at that video. He is doing a complete overhaul though. He removes the battery, transponder, circuitry etc Think I just need to swap the key blade silver part.

Any thoughts on this ? If I was to order a new casing, I could disassemble the new casing, disassemble the old casing. Then swap the key silver part from new to old casing. Take out new blade part. Then replace with my old blade.

I think