Replacing broken VW key

valve90210 · 11 Sep 2015 at 11:36

Hi All

My Dad has somehow managed to break one of his keys to his car and has been quoted £199 for a replacement from the main dealer. That to me sounded rather steep so I looked on ebay and found you could pick up replacement casings etc for about £3.

From what I gather, you simply swap out the internals and the blade and bobs your uncle, all sorted. Sadly for my Dad its the actual blade which is broken...

He has a spare key, so I'm wondering if you can get them cut at a decent keycutters? and then just swap over the internals and he should have a working key again? I am right in my thinking or have I overlooked anything?

valve90210 · 11 Sep 2015 at 13:20

Hmmm, thanks for the heads up on that. Might be worth asking a smaller independent key cutter.

valve90210 · 11 Sep 2015 at 15:25

lemonade said:
If you mean the fob is broken and not the actual metal key, then I would imagine you can just swap it onto another fob casing.

Sadly no, it's the actual metal key that's broken, god knows how it happened!

snapdragon69 said:
If you buy these Chinese flip blades off ebay, they are made of the wrong metal for keys and the key places refuse to cut it or start to and then say sorry it's too hard to cut.

Hmm, that's an interesting point, I assume that would include the cheap ones I've seen on ebay at a guess?

Might be worth paying the £30 or so from Timpsons, still vastly cheaper than the VW dealer wanted!!

valve90210 · 14 Sep 2015 at 16:33

Think I'm going to suggest he gets a cheapo key from ebay and finds a key cutter who will cut it, it all else fails then Timpsons for £30, even if it goes that way it's still a huge saving over the main dealer!