Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Search the maintenance guides for answers to 99.999% of Omega questions

Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Down

Author Topic: New key needed... options?  (Read 5871 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

GastronomicKleptomaniac

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Teesside (the nice bit)
  • Posts: 3922
    • 3.2 plod, 2.6 MV6, etc
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #15 on: 28 March 2016, 19:52:49 »

Can I buy a new ID40 chip on its own and get it programmed... and glue the key back together if necessary? I have all the pieces,  sans chip, that a good dose of glue will hold together...
Logged
Servicing and repairs done in NE. Special rates for OOFers! PM me.

zirk

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Epping Forest
  • Posts: 11431
  • 3.2 Manual Special Saloon ReMapped and LPG'd and
    • 3.2 Manual Special Estate
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #16 on: 28 March 2016, 20:06:21 »

Can I buy a new ID40 chip on its own and get it programmed... and glue the key back together if necessary? I have all the pieces,  sans chip, that a good dose of glue will hold together...
The car needs to be programmed to accept a new chip.  ;) do you have the Security Card Code for the car?
Logged

Andy H

  • Omega Lord
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Auckland
  • Posts: 5498
    • Mazda MPV
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #17 on: 28 March 2016, 20:09:54 »

Can I buy a new ID40 chip on its own and get it programmed... and glue the key back together if necessary? I have all the pieces,  sans chip, that a good dose of glue will hold together...
The car needs to be programmed to accept a new chip.  ;) do you have the Security Card Code for the car?
I would be outside now with a bright light picking over the gravel to find the missing chip  ;D
Logged
"Deja Moo - The feeling that you've heard this bull somewhere before."

zirk

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Epping Forest
  • Posts: 11431
  • 3.2 Manual Special Saloon ReMapped and LPG'd and
    • 3.2 Manual Special Estate
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #18 on: 28 March 2016, 20:22:33 »

Can I buy a new ID40 chip on its own and get it programmed... and glue the key back together if necessary? I have all the pieces,  sans chip, that a good dose of glue will hold together...
The car needs to be programmed to accept a new chip.  ;) do you have the Security Card Code for the car?
I would be outside now with a bright light picking over the gravel to find the missing chip  ;D
No offence to the OP, but knowing whats involved and without a spare key, I wouldn't have given up looking for it yesterday.
Logged

GastronomicKleptomaniac

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Teesside (the nice bit)
  • Posts: 3922
    • 3.2 plod, 2.6 MV6, etc
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #19 on: 28 March 2016, 20:56:37 »

If you'd seen the hail storm, you would have! ;)

Plan A is to find the chip. Can't have gone far.

Plan B is a new chip in old key. Theres a possibility that one of my colleagues has an imitation Tech 2 or code reader which can do keys... in which case I just need a car pass from the dealer.

Plan C, we will use if necessary!  :y
Logged
Servicing and repairs done in NE. Special rates for OOFers! PM me.

05omegav6

  • Guest
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #20 on: 29 March 2016, 07:28:34 »

If you'd seen the hail storm, you would have! ;)

Plan A is to find the chip. Can't have gone far.

Plan B is a new chip in old key. Theres a possibility that one of my colleagues has an imitation Tech 2 or code reader which can do keys... in which case I just need a car pass from the dealer.

Plan C, we will use if necessary!  :y
Don't bother with Plan Bif you value your ecus ;)
Logged

GastronomicKleptomaniac

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Teesside (the nice bit)
  • Posts: 3922
    • 3.2 plod, 2.6 MV6, etc
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #21 on: 29 March 2016, 07:34:09 »

If you'd seen the hail storm, you would have! ;)

Plan A is to find the chip. Can't have gone far.

Plan B is a new chip in old key. Theres a possibility that one of my colleagues has an imitation Tech 2 or code reader which can do keys... in which case I just need a car pass from the dealer.

Plan C, we will use if necessary!  :y
Don't bother with Plan Bif you value your ecus ;)

Tell me more. .. I freely admit im a beginner with the electronic side of things...
Logged
Servicing and repairs done in NE. Special rates for OOFers! PM me.

05omegav6

  • Guest
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #22 on: 29 March 2016, 07:54:40 »

Voldemort has a poor track record when it comes to ecu coding.

If you have the car pass, then it should be a quick run to Mark and job done. If you don't have the car pass, get one :y

Finding the chip is the simplest solution, then buy a key blank, get it cut to match original and fit the original chip/fob to it. Job jobbed :y
Logged

terry paget

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Midsomer Norton Somerset
  • Posts: 4633
    • 3 Astras 2 Vectra
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #23 on: 29 March 2016, 19:34:16 »

Awful feeling it's been washed away in one of the storms I ran inside and hid from. Not helped by being on a gravel driveway...

...I shall go and check out the FAQs for info but what am I looking at for a new usable key? A kidney?
In March 2014 my son Ben complained his 2.2 would not start. I  changed the crank sensor (nasty job) to no avail. He then confessed he had dropped his key in the drive and it had fallen apart. He popped the fob back on again, seemed OK, but car would not start; then I thpught he might have lost the transponder. I asked him where he had dropped the key, he said on the drive. This had been 2 weeks previously. The drive is tarmacadam. I spent half an hour on my hands and knees looking for the transponder. Amazingly I found it. I put it back in the key fob and all was well. I know I was lucky, finding it, and not crushed by other cars.
It's worth a good search! Pic follows.
Logged

GastronomicKleptomaniac

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Teesside (the nice bit)
  • Posts: 3922
    • 3.2 plod, 2.6 MV6, etc
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #24 on: 29 March 2016, 19:39:18 »

Have dug up half the gravel around the car and sifted it by hand! No joy...  :-X
Logged
Servicing and repairs done in NE. Special rates for OOFers! PM me.

Andy B

  • Get A Life!!
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bury Lancs
  • Posts: 39446
    • ML350 TDM SmartRoadster
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #25 on: 29 March 2016, 20:27:07 »

Ages back I had an Astra that had two keys, but only used the one. One time I was sat on the floor while working on a car and found chip ...... didn't know I'd lost one  ??? ..... it was from the 'spare' key!  :y :y :y
Logged

johnnydog

  • Omega Knight
  • *****
  • Online Online
  • Gender: Male
  • Lancashire
  • Posts: 1789
    • 2.6 & 3.2 sal, 3.2 est
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #26 on: 29 March 2016, 20:39:14 »

On the odd occasion when my key has come apart, it's usually been when I have been (whilst in a rush probably) turning the key to take it out of the ignition. On each occasion, I found the chip on the drivers rubber mat; difficult to spot as it looks like a piece of gravel that collects from your shoes. Unless, of course I've missed something and you were outside the car at the time....
Logged
2002 3.2 Elite saloon, 2003 3.2 Elite estate, 2003 2.6 Elite saloon

Nick W

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Chatham, Kent
  • Posts: 10836
  • Rover Metro 1.8VVC
    • 3.0l Elite estate
    • View Profile
Re: New key needed... options?
« Reply #27 on: 29 March 2016, 20:49:50 »

I've mentioned this before; If your key is loose enough to come apart, then you should glue the chip in place! It doesn't need much, a dab of superglue or even from a hot snot gun will plenty. And then you won't have to grovel about on your hands an knees looking for the thing.
Logged
Pages: 1 [2]  All   Go Up
 

Page created in 0.043 seconds with 18 queries.