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Uhm, yeah, I'd absolutely expect an official dealership to refuse to produce a key for a car you cannot prove ownership of, regardless of whether it was loaned
by gambiting 5y ago
Uhm, yeah, I'd absolutely expect an official dealership to refuse to produce a key for a car you cannot prove ownership of, regardless of whether it was loaned to you, inherited, or if you found it in a ditch - no proof of ownership, no key.
If you are one of those edge cases, there are tonnes of unofficial garages which will happily make you a new key for money. The manufacturer - and by extension, they official dealerships - should never make keys for anyone but the legal owner.
- ghaff 5y agoI've never owned a car with modern keyless fobs but I've certainly had new spare keys made and I'm sure I've never had to produce a title to do so. Of course in that case I already had a key and I was in their computer system in some manner.
- gambiting 5y agoI think it's a bit different if you turn up with the car and a working key already - in that case making you another key doesn't really change anything about the situation(although I suppose it could still be someone just borrowing a car intending to use the spare to steal it later....). But yeah, I specifically mean a situation where someone doesn't have a key, turns up with the car on a trailer and asks for the key for it - in that case yeah, why would a dealership unlock and provide you with a key for a random car that you can't prove ownership of? That would be just weird.
- ghaff 5y agoYeah. That would be very weird especially if it were a dealership you had no previous dealings with. (I don't actually know how interconnected a manufacturer's dealership network is at the back end.)