V8V replacement keys

[Richales]

I need to get a replacement set of keys for my recently acquired '07 V8VR; previous owner hid them somewhere and could not find them when he came to sell!

Does anyone know how much or if it's possible for a replacement set from AM? I've seen a set on ebay, which clearly the key won't be much use, but can the fob be reprogrammed?

Can a specialist cut another key or would it need a complete lock change?! As a spare I'm not too bothered if it has a Volvo badge on it!


PS. Saw both the new Virage (V. nice) and the Cygnet at the weekend at the Rundles Cup Polo in Tidworth (Hackett & AM sponsored). Although I understand why AM have done it, it still beggers belief that any mug would actually buy the AM badged Toyota for £35+!?

[Murph7355]

A car at this level would have to be very cheap for me to take it without a couple of full sets of keys (ie as they come from the factory with). It's a ball ache, and potentially expensive.

I think it's been asked before, so a search might yield some results. Otherwise I'd call an AM dealer and see what the scoop is with getting fobs tied to the car etc...I think one of the set of originals might be the master but can't recall for definite.

[peterr96]

Murph7355 said:

A car at this level would have to be very cheap for me to take it without a couple of full sets of keys (ie as they come from the factory with). It's a ball ache, and potentially expensive.

I think it's been asked before, so a search might yield some results. Otherwise I'd call an AM dealer and see what the scoop is with getting fobs tied to the car etc...I think one of the set of originals might be the master but can't recall for definite.

Just to expand on this;
I'd be nervous as things stand currently.
There is a rogue fob knocking about unaccounted for so it might be worth enquiring of a dealer whether the existing fob and receiver in the car can be given a new "personality" and a new tag added to the family.
That way, if the missing key/tag did ever end up in right place & in the wrong hands the best they could do would be to get in the car using the key and in the process set off the alarm. The immobiliser should prevent them driving it.

Knowing insurance companies, if the car went walkabout and you only had one key/fob to show, they would probably claim that you had left it with the keys in it.
In your current position that's a hard one to argue against.
If you did manage to re-code the car and tags you could at least show you had taken every precaution.

[Richales]

Thanks for the concern about the "missing" set of keys. To be honest though, IF the previous owner managed to find them AND he was so inclinded as to not send them on to me but to flog them to a particularly undesirable character - I think the chances of them ending up where I live and driving off are about the same as tonight me becoming the 418th richest person in the UK - if you know what I mean!

Besides, they'd have to negotiate the landmined garden, scale my electified fence, defeat the Spetznaz trained armed guard and break into my Fort Knox underground garage first!

I'm genuinely not worried about the keys turning up in the wrong hands, I am really just asking if anyone has been in this situation before and whether it's possible to get another "Ford" key cut and to buy a new Fob and have it reprogrammed?

[rick-derby-]

existing keys and remote's can be deleted from the memory, car would be able to open such as the doors but if deleted will not be able to start the car as immobilizer will stay active, standard ford keys although they could be programmed (same system) the black handle bit is the wrong shape at the end so it does not let the key go all the way in, second hand remotes can not usually be programmed as the original codes are required that are supplied with the remotes when new,