Hey all,

Trying for the life of me to figure and remember how important having the red master key and how much to replace is it these days? Reason I ask.....loking at a car without one!

Many Thanks

One year with the engine out and the battery disconnected on my car: no red key, still started first time.

Locksmith can clone spare keys from the blue one, so I'd have to say, totally unimportant!

Carlt does full sets of ecu/locks/keys for around £220 iirc

At the end of the day not very. Lots of people have had all sorts of work done on the coops and never needed it. If you want one for the sake of having a "complete car" to sell on later (and quite a few people mistakenly insist on them) then CarlT has full sets of locks/ECU/keys for a reasonable cost.

Good, I got the red key with mine and I put it away some where safe*





* lost

Sorry Wishy


Ach well, it gives me a chance to link to this post...... clicky!

Thats fantastic. Many thanks for the quick response guys. If all else fails then my sped dial to carl t can be used....again!

Ps...do u lot hav jobs???

Yes, forum trouble-maker

Nice work if you can get it..!

And there is always the Red key FAQ

It's not as good as my link





I love this job

The key bit in the buyers could do with tweaking a bit though as reading that you'd that the red was important and could cost a grand to fix if it was missing.

i've needed mine once, left the stereo on whilst filling up with petrol and when i started up the key symbol came up and car ran like a bag of brown stuff.
put red key in and started up, everything back to normal.
if you don't have the red key i suppose the old code card and pushing the throttle will do, so long as you have the card that is!!!

In case anyone was wondering - here's the keycode cards and the red key from mine, never been used in eleven and three quarter years.

http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t31/nailed_barnacle/?action=view¤t=P7180074-small.jpg

Neil

(yes, yes, of *course* I sprayed out the numbers )

Now I understand what Stan was upto earlier...shameless plug for his post!!! Doh...I get it now...lol

Quick question, if I buy a new Silver key I don't have to pay fiat to code it I just use the steps but do 2 silver keys?