stmcknig
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I guess there may be different kinds of "******" out there....I would have suspected my dealer was lying to me (shock horror!) but I also tried the key pairing with a "******" key I got from eBay using the dealer SDD software and it baulked. Once I got the key from the UK, as I said, pairing it took but minutes.
The last research I did suggested that if you were rich enough you could buy a key cloner which read the values out of your working key and transferred them (again one time only deal) to your "blank" key. This would mean your LR would see both keys as the same so it would probably mess with any seat memory settings (but I don't have those luxury items) - I believe that’s also something that can be done for other RFID car keys. The cost of the machine however is more than paying for the real one so I passed on that science experiment....
I'd just advise that if you get a "new" key from any source other than your friendly neighbourhood franchised LR dealer that you get a refund option in writing if you're laying out a significant chunk of change. Also read the small print on some "bargains" as they are selling just the key outer shell and you are supposed to transplant your inner PCB and shank etc over. Those LR keys are quite a job to get into without by the way ;-)
The last research I did suggested that if you were rich enough you could buy a key cloner which read the values out of your working key and transferred them (again one time only deal) to your "blank" key. This would mean your LR would see both keys as the same so it would probably mess with any seat memory settings (but I don't have those luxury items) - I believe that’s also something that can be done for other RFID car keys. The cost of the machine however is more than paying for the real one so I passed on that science experiment....
I'd just advise that if you get a "new" key from any source other than your friendly neighbourhood franchised LR dealer that you get a refund option in writing if you're laying out a significant chunk of change. Also read the small print on some "bargains" as they are selling just the key outer shell and you are supposed to transplant your inner PCB and shank etc over. Those LR keys are quite a job to get into without by the way ;-)