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> Kia and Hyundai are not doing their due diligence and being both incredibly lazy and incredibly cheap here And if they had, people would be on here complaini
by housemusicfan 3y ago
> Kia and Hyundai are not doing their due diligence and being both incredibly lazy and incredibly cheap here
And if they had, people would be on here complaining about evil corporate greed because it costs $300 to duplicate and program a transponder key.
- marcus0x62 3y agoWhy not both? I’ve programmed a transponder key the dealer wanted 400+ dollars to program. The key fob (an OE part) cost $40 online from another dealer — I’m assuming they sold me the key fob at a profit and not out of charity. The programming procedure using a scan tool took 5 minutes.
- aidenn0 3y ago> And if they had, people would be on here complaining about evil corporate greed because it costs $300 to duplicate and program a transponder key. Has this changed? It cost zero dollars to program a transponder key last time I did (20ish years ago), since the instructions for doing so were in the car manual. It was some weird dance where you need two already-programmed keys and turn them in the ignition to specific positions in a specific order.
- bombcar 3y agoThe problem is you are usually wanting to program a key when you’ve already lost one.
- housemusicfan 3y agoYes. Some cars (notably Hondas) do not let you self-program keys; rather it must be done with a scan tool. The era of push-button start has ushered in crazy-expensive key fobs. As the other poster pointed out, vehicles that do allow self-programming generally require two known keys present to program a third. Most people don't realize this until they've lost one of the two OEM keys.