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Sun 15 Sep 2002 22:21
Lost keys - fastlad
Hi all
On leaving Heathrow Airport for my holiday I discovered I had left the keys for my Skoda Fabia at the security check. On return there was no sign of the keys at lost property. I had to to drive to Liverpool, so phoned a few local dealers and was told if they could get the chassis number they could get a key made but it would take 3 days, not much use. So phoned up the AA the warranty support option and was told this was not covered by the warranty. However they could get a locksmith out to cut a new one on the spot at a cost of £330 + vat. Not much choice so said yes(feeling ill now). Locksmith came and a key was cut and worked but was told the spare key at home is now no good, so now have only one key. Is it expensive to get a new key programed by the dealer? Any chance of a claim on my travel insurance?
Postscript after a seven hour flight I was not thinking as clear as I should have so probably could have looked at other options.
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Mon 16 Sep 2002 00:32
Lost keys - Dynamic Dave
Fastlad,

Sorry I can't answer your question, but I heard a similar story where someone lost their car keys while on a cavaraning holiday. Car was an Astra. They found a small local Vauxhall garage who managed to cut a key for them by stripping the door lock barrel, The key didn't have the immobiliser chip in it though (if they had ordered one, it would have took 3 days to arrive) The garage plugged their magic black box into the car's ecu and disabled the immobiliser circuit. They were advised that when they got home to visit their main Vauxhall franchise to order the chip from them, and get the immobiliser circuit reactivated again.

Sorry for the above waffle, but the point I am trying to make is that I would have thought the Skoda dealer could have done a similar thing rather than putting you though what I consider an unnecessary expense.
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Wed 10 Aug 2016 09:34
Lost keys - peterabram

Last time I needed a set of spare keys, I went to a local Locksmith in Sunrise with my registration and ID, showing that it all matches. $38 later, I got my door key and the ignition key.

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Wed 10 Aug 2016 10:40
Lost keys - FP

Now where have we seen this before?

Old thread resurrected; idiotic spammer thinks we're all going to pop over from the UK to Florida to get spare keys. Right.

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