Vanden Plas Key Blank
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Vanden Plas Key Blank
Anyone know if a 1996 Vanden Plas Valet key blank will work with a 2004 XK Valet system if it is cut and programmed?
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F273814695797
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It looks like a key like that would work for the mechanical locks (a new one that is, uncut, and then cut to your car as this one is already cut). The technical name is tibbe 8-cut (as opposed to the tibbe 6-cut).
For starting the car with this key, you would have to get a Megamos 48 crypto chip (the size of a big grain of rice), and then drill the plastic handle of this key to fit the chip in it, then somehow cap it. These chips are cheap and available (check eBay). As you pointed out, the car would then have to be made to accept this new chip (at the same time as all the other ones you already have) by programming through the diagnostics connector.
Best of luck, keep us posted.
For starting the car with this key, you would have to get a Megamos 48 crypto chip (the size of a big grain of rice), and then drill the plastic handle of this key to fit the chip in it, then somehow cap it. These chips are cheap and available (check eBay). As you pointed out, the car would then have to be made to accept this new chip (at the same time as all the other ones you already have) by programming through the diagnostics connector.
Best of luck, keep us posted.
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The alternative (not sure you can do this for the ignition), is to re-key all the locks to match a set of pre-existing keys,. It is the mirror image of what you are trying to do. A while back, someone showed a trunk key lock kit. It came with a number of small shaped washer/rings that had to be sequenced by hand to match an existing key. It looked basically mechanical in nature, but pretty tricky nonetheless.
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Great info fmertz. Based on that I can say this
key will not work for me either
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jaguar-Mast...-/323301823880
Still looking.
key will not work for me either
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jaguar-Mast...-/323301823880
Still looking.
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