VW Key.

Von Smallhausen · 19 Feb 2010 at 01:43

Google is hellish slow and I am off to bed soon so forgive me for cheating.

Does anyone know roughly how much a new key would cost for a VW Bora which I assume will have to be from a dealer ?

Ta in advance.

West · 19 Feb 2010 at 03:34

Isn't it around the £120 mark for most makes these days?

Hungryjoey · 19 Feb 2010 at 03:42

West said:
Isn't it around the £120 mark for most makes these days?

I thought the OP was asking the questions here?

To be honest it will vary between manufacturers and dealers. Your best bet would be to simply ring your local dealer and get a price, it will be difficult to find an accurate price on the internet.

Ian_Eb · 19 Feb 2010 at 09:06

Last time I asked for my old Passat they wanted somewhere in the region of £150

I get around · 19 Feb 2010 at 09:34

Don't buy through the dealer.
Buy a fob off ebay and use this guy here to cut your new blade for £7.

Fob won't be programmed though, afaik you have to take it to a dealer. Or you might be able to somehow do it using VAG com.

Thats what I did for my spare, the guys amazing you literally just send him some pictures of your key and get the new blade in the post the next day, works prefectly.

Dangerous Dave · 19 Feb 2010 at 09:51

From the dealer you are looking at £100-150 it varies depending how much time the garage charge for coding the key.

If you know someone or a garage with the right software it will be cheaper a couple of local independent garages charge £40 to code a key. You need more than VCDS/Vagcom to pull the SKC from the car as dealers won't provide this now. You then use VCDS and the SKC to code the key. I just did this for my sisters car using the method I get around posted above however I already had the software and it cost just over £30 for a new flip key.

mjt · 19 Feb 2010 at 10:05

As above, a dealer will be £150 at most.

Von Smallhausen · 19 Feb 2010 at 11:14

Thanks for the replies folks.

jamief · 19 Feb 2010 at 11:19

Hungryjoey said:
it will be difficult to find an accurate price on the internet.

considering he asked for a "rough price", not really very useful eh?

Liquidfox · 19 Feb 2010 at 12:58

That's pretty expensive considering they still exist. MG specialist dealer wants £80 for a fob and £15-20 for programming it. Just went and bought two fobs for £40 on Fleabay and will get those done instead

Rotty · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:15

Its about £180 now as I am in process of sorting one for the TT whicj afaik is same key

you can get a used key for about £40 on ebay ( with blank blade, make sure you get right one there are loads of diff ones ) , then £7 for a cut balde and £30 to have it coded

Dangerous Dave · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:11

Rotty said:
Its about £180 now as I am in process of sorting one for the TT whicj afaik is same key

you can get a used key for about £40 on ebay ( with blank blade, make sure you get right one there are loads of diff ones ) , then £7 for a cut balde and £30 to have it coded

Ask them to delete the missing key from the cars immobiliser always worth doing. It is easy to do if they are coding another key so they should do this for free.

classicVin · 19 Feb 2010 at 20:07

Yeah, if we were coding a key for a customer 1st of all we would do the remote part, this is easy, we just go through guided functions on our diag computer. Then we would need to code the transponder in the key itself, for this we need all the keys for the vehicle (well whichever keys the customer still has) And then we go through our diag computers and have to log on via the internet and it sends a query to vw, so it gets the immobilizer in a state to which keys can be coded to it.

sorry for a wall of text :]

Rotty · 24 Feb 2010 at 23:36

Got mine finished now

Key off Ebay £46

Blade £7

Programming £30

£83 total, saved around £100

Dangerous Dave said:
Ask them to delete the missing key from the cars immobiliser always worth doing. It is easy to do if they are coding another key so they should do this for free.

Thanks for advice, got him to do that while he had stuff plugged in

zain · 25 Feb 2010 at 01:30

Isn't it a bit dangerous doing it off ebay? Ie. they could take your car with the coded blade?

sneakypenguin · 25 Feb 2010 at 02:17

zain said:
Isn't it a bit dangerous doing it off ebay? Ie. they could take your car with the coded blade?

the blades are blank so you have to get them cut to fit your car and the fob will need programming to the car's immoblizer, not dangerous at all especially if you get all the bit from different sellers

iaind · 25 Feb 2010 at 07:52

Liquidfox said:
That's pretty expensive considering they still exist. MG specialist dealer wants £80 for a fob and £15-20 for programming it. Just went and bought two fobs for £40 on Fleabay and will get those done instead

An MG key is probably nothing more than an old Sanyo TV remote duct taped to a teaspoon

Liquidfox · 25 Feb 2010 at 10:30

iaind said:
An MG key is probably nothing more than an old Sanyo TV remote duct taped to a teaspoon

I wish. It's hooked up to a BCU which has a tendancy to throw a fit when hooked up to T4 Diagnostics and then brick itself needing a replacement along with a new alarm system. Circa ~£600...

Rotty · 25 Feb 2010 at 12:53

sneakypenguin said:
the blades are blank so you have to get them cut to fit your car and the fob will need programming to the car's immoblizer, not dangerous at all especially if you get all the bit from different sellers

yep, remote, blade and programming all from different places