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When you buy a modern car, usually it comes with two or three remote keys. I'm only getting one. I'm going to assume that the original owner or dealer have the other two. Possible to make it so that the remotes don't work? How? Dealer? Cost? Maybe it's not useful? Since they probably have the mechanical key as well if they have the keys. Don't worry about it? Or what do you guys do? "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | ||
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Make the dealer make you a new key. You should make it a condition of buying the car that they include 2 oem factory keys. For my car, as long as I have the 2 factory keys, I can program up to 6 more keys to start the car and 2 more fobs to open and lock the doors and pop the trunk. If I only have one of the factory keys, then I have to go to the dealer or a lock smith and pay them to make extra key copies. | |||
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I wouldn't worry about it. It's not worth the trouble. Not a huge market for stolen LX570 or their parts. If the vehicle is at home, then they can just as easily break into your house to steal actual valuable things. If they really wanted the car, the keys would be in the house. The odds of them stealing your car from a random place out and about is really low. | |||
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Stupid Allergy |
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Programmed key fob or key can be quite an expense and hassle. Like said above I would make that part of the deal o have the extra fobs added. Some vehicle key fobs have to all be programmed together. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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I had the same issue when I bought a used Lexus recently, salesman claims Lexus only gives out one. I bought another one at the dealer right away, which the salesperson was able to arrange "dealer pricing" for me, and had it cut and programmed right away. You can ask the technician for a "master reset" through the Toyota Techstream software and then only the two fobs currently programmed will work. Get your salesman to hook you up. He had the tech program my for free. I believe I paid $100 for the key fob with blank and the key cutting. | |||
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Eating, sleeping and boinking. Everything else is just Filler. |
I bought a used car and the seller said that he didn't have either of the two remote fobs. Just the keys. So I bought 2 original OEM (They need to be original, not "compatible") fobs on eBay for 20 bux apiece and had them programmed locally by a locksmith for $40.00 Took 5 minutes. I love it here! My Gun collection: Too many to list. Lets just say that the zombies should look elsewhere. | |||
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Maybe... and it's worth trying to find out. When I bought a car that only came with one key I found a record of the prior owner in the car and wrote the woman a letter. I was very polite and offered to pay shipping if she could find the other key. I provided my phone number. Within a few days she called me, she had the key, verified that I was the new owner of the car, and she sent me the key. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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thin skin can't win |
While chellim's situation is ideal, I believe in most cases either the prior seller or the wholesalers of the cars tend to strip the second fob out of the deal and sell it on the side for additional profit. If buying from a dealer getting a second as part of the deal makes sense. However if the car is coming through a used dealer via auction, etc. the second fob is likely long gone. I wouldn't worry about the person who had that key somehow tracking down the car and stealing it. They are greedy in most cases, but likely not felons. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Thanks guys. Okay, not going to worry about it too much. The fob also has a mechanical key so even if erased the fob (possible?), they would still have the mechanical key. I'm not so concerned about car theft as perhaps maybe getting into the car and stealing stuff, possibly without even us noticing until much later. But I'm not even sure if the original owner is local or not -- I bought from a used car dealer, not a factory dealer. Car could be sourced from anywhere I guess. But at least, maybe when I register the car, I'll get new plates. I'm just overly paranoid I guess. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
Short of a new ignition (probably can't rekey the existing one), and all new keys (that need cutting), and all new fobs (that need programming), and maybe a new brain/computer module (if the existing one doesn't lock out old fobs) - which would be a few hundred bucks or so - you're stuck with it as is. I wouldn't worry. The likelihood is small and that's what insurance is for. | |||
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Okay. Done. No worries, be happy. Stop being so paranoid. Drink less coffee. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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thin skin can't win |
I admire your optimism. What you just described would likely in the 4 digit range easily. Looks like konata is chilled now, so no worries! You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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The key will let them into the car, but if not programmed, the car will not even turn over. I just had a key made for a family member who lost one. Took it to a reputable locksmith - less then half the cost the dealer quoted. Now that I have two, I'm going to program a third so that I have two unique key codes in case one of the three gets lost. The programming you do at home will disable any key not present. If you lose the last key, it can get quite expensive to handle - you either need to pay towing, pay the locksmith for a visit, and you'll probably need to get new locks as well at that point. | |||
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Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
You can have the car reprogrammed for a new code and program new fobs, but it's expensive. I had it done on a '98 Ford Expedition about ten years ago and it cost me $200. I'd imagine it's probably about $600 now. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Get my pies outta the oven! |
You should insist that the dealer or seller provide you a second fob or give you a credit for one. They can be CRAZY expensive to replace, some are $300 or more nowadays. You should always have a spare fob for when you lose or misplace it etc. I bought a car at a CarMax type place and in my paperwork it stated that TWO keyfobs would be included with the car. Got home and realized they never gave me the second, contacted them and they didn't have it but told me they would honor my paperwork. Went to a dealer and had to shell out like $185 for one then sent them the bill and got reimbursed. | |||
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Stupid Allergy |
This^^ "Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen... | |||
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Lexus has an official owner's club/website that you can register your car and see the service history. You will then have an idea where the car came from. If you have carfax on the car, it also shows the service history. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
For what you're paying for the car, i'd insist on getting a second fob. Those things are like $400. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Each new or used car or motorcycle I bought in the past 10 years came with TWO key Fobs and an emergency key. If the dealer doesn't have the second Fob, make him get one for free. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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