Aftermarket smart/proximity key?

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gimebakmybulits

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I bought an IID Tool and a key fob off ebay for that very same issue. I felt the money was better spent on a tool for me than going in to the dealership's pocket.
 
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gimebakmybulits said:
I bought an IID Tool and a key fob off ebay for that very same issue. I felt the money was better spent on a tool for me than going in to the dealership's pocket.
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I have an IIDtool but didn't know if the aftermarket remotes are legit.. Dis you get a genuine used one or an aftermarket one?
 
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gimebakmybulits

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I followed the instructions that were in the IID-Tool manual for adding a key and it worked on the first try. I basically paid for the IID-Tool by not going to the dealership. The key I bought was the smaller one that I believe comes with the Evoque.
 
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gimebakmybulits said:
I followed the instructions that were in the IID-Tool manual for adding a key and it worked on the first try. I basically paid for the IID-Tool by not going to the dealership. The key I bought was the smaller one that I believe comes with the Evoque.
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Interesting, I didn't know you could use the new style key if the vehicle originally had the old style. That key started with the Evoque, but everything has it now.
 
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discostew

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jymmiejamz said:
I should mention, sometimes it takes 4-5 tries to get it to go through. Always fails the first time.
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That's a moving target also. There was a time about 2 years ago the software in SDD was fucked up and you would have to tell it you wanted to program 3 keys, one would always fail. So if you tried to program 2 keys only one would work. Usually the new key worked but the original key stopped working.
 
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Yeah key programming is always a crapshoot. Oddly enough, Maserati is the same. The first key always programs, but the second key fails five or more times before it actually goes through.
 
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jymmiejamz said:
Yeah key programming is always a crapshoot. Oddly enough, Maserati is the same. The first key always programs, but the second key fails five or more times before it actually goes through.
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On some Jags it will always say it failed but the keys work. LR3 was probably the least problems with keys.
 
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