Hi All, A little bit of advice.
When i got my 2003 986.2 I only had one remote key. After doing plenty of reading about the various options of getting a second remote key, decided to bite the bullet and get my local OPC to supply and do all the work. This is obviously the most expensive option, but I felt it would be worth the extra as quality of parts and re-assurance of a OPC dealing with a older cars alarm/immobiliser etc.
In I went last week and a hour later and £329.65 lighter came out with a new remote key. All good.
Got home and then tried using my original key.....it did not work the remote functions.
Called the OPC, they apologised profusely, and booked the car back in to get it sorted.
So this morning, again a hour later they have come back and said that the all four memory slots in the car's system were full, and that when they programmed the new key it overwrote my existing key. Saying this is a random thing and that they have no control over which memory slot is used (which does not really make sense to me, because if you have 4 keys, loose one, get a new one, there is a one in four chance that it will kill a surviving key?)
The old key obviously still works in the door locks, but starts the car as well - so the immobiliser chip in the fob still works, it is just the remote functions that do not work on that key (they did before).
I was obviously slightly questioning of this, but was told the only way to sort was to find my original key code card (lost over the past 16 years) or get a new key head reprogrammed.
So I have a couple of questions...firstly why would my old key's immobiliser function still work while the remote functions do not anymore?, are they telling fibs when they say the car randomly chooses the memory slot to store the key info (ie: to over writing existing key info) and someone has just made a mistake?, and finally as the invoice clearly states "Coded x2 keys to vehicle" can I throw my toys out the pram and say they have to sort it?
Thanks for your advice,
Antony
When i got my 2003 986.2 I only had one remote key. After doing plenty of reading about the various options of getting a second remote key, decided to bite the bullet and get my local OPC to supply and do all the work. This is obviously the most expensive option, but I felt it would be worth the extra as quality of parts and re-assurance of a OPC dealing with a older cars alarm/immobiliser etc.
In I went last week and a hour later and £329.65 lighter came out with a new remote key. All good.
Got home and then tried using my original key.....it did not work the remote functions.
Called the OPC, they apologised profusely, and booked the car back in to get it sorted.
So this morning, again a hour later they have come back and said that the all four memory slots in the car's system were full, and that when they programmed the new key it overwrote my existing key. Saying this is a random thing and that they have no control over which memory slot is used (which does not really make sense to me, because if you have 4 keys, loose one, get a new one, there is a one in four chance that it will kill a surviving key?)
The old key obviously still works in the door locks, but starts the car as well - so the immobiliser chip in the fob still works, it is just the remote functions that do not work on that key (they did before).
I was obviously slightly questioning of this, but was told the only way to sort was to find my original key code card (lost over the past 16 years) or get a new key head reprogrammed.
So I have a couple of questions...firstly why would my old key's immobiliser function still work while the remote functions do not anymore?, are they telling fibs when they say the car randomly chooses the memory slot to store the key info (ie: to over writing existing key info) and someone has just made a mistake?, and finally as the invoice clearly states "Coded x2 keys to vehicle" can I throw my toys out the pram and say they have to sort it?
Thanks for your advice,
Antony
