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Old 9th April 2009, 09:17   #1
tony_fry
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Default Key Fob Programming!!

Can anyone on the forum members help me with this one?

When I brought my 75 it only had one key!!

I had brought the car a few days before I went on a 3 week holiday, on returning, I went to start thew car and the battery was dead, no problem I went to a local motor factors and brought a replacement battery, I thought that would be the end of the problem, but I had a "engine immobilized" warning light on the IPK.

The long and short of it all, I had to get a replacement key from a ex-dealer, which is working fine.

Whilst I was down with Ralph's @ EMS this week having a new speedo head fitted and a session on the T4 making a few adjustments, I took the original key that opens the doors on the plip buttons and fits the the barrel but the immobilizer part is not recognized on the ECU or whatever it connects to, I was told that you should be able to reprogram they key, but they told me it can not be done as I do not have the bar code that relates to the key, I was under the impression that the T4 should be able to read the code from the key? and the T4 is only for programming the opening and closing of the doors using the remote?

I would like get the original key working again as a spare, does anyone know if it is possible to get the immobilizer part of the key reprogrammed without the bar code or if you could get the bar code from anywhere?

Perhaps Keith, Lates or anyone that knows about the T4 might be able to answer this one?

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Tony
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