You should have a credit type card which you cam scrub the coating off and it gives a number unique to the vehicle .You need this number to match the new key to the ECU if you have not got it then Citroen should provide you with it for a fee no doubt.If it is a chipped key then I think that you are stuck with Citroen.I had the same problem with a C5 and a recently with a Nissan and after all sorts of advice on who could and can do it only the agents actually could £65 for the C5 and £145 for the Nissan.
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I do have the card luckily without it would have cost even more!!!!
Looks like im snookered but thanks for the replies.
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Tryed the link Dave but i would not be able to post off my only key need to use the van daily and knowing my luck it would be lost :0)
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I've just remembered a suggestion that occasionally gets a mention on another forum I look at.
Give Timpsons a try.
www.timpson.co.uk/keys/keys.asp
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"a chipped key (not central locking type)"
I don't understand this point - surely if it isn't remote central locking, surely it is just a key that can be cut because it just needs to fit the keyhole. My Multispace has one remote key and one "ordinary" key which fits the keyhole, if the blanks are available can't it just be cut by "Mr Minute"? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? Or are the blanks not available?
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Phil
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From what I understand of it, yes blanks are readily available, but inside the keyfob itself is a transponder chip that needs marrying up to the vehicle immobiliser. Without the chip all you'll be able to do is unlock the door.
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Yup thats right Dave..i will try my local timpson branch tommorow and let you no how i get on.
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Try this chap:
alex@icsystems.co.uk
as he can do Fiat ones.
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www.touchnottingham.com/business/list/bid/2743707
They can usually do them for about £40, on some cars they clone the existing key and transponder, if it's a remote fob too, they usually need the security code and to programme a new remote to the vehicle.
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