Quick key repair.

[Iandh]

Hello All,
After finding my remote key was falling apart due to it being cracked around the screw, I purchased a blank key from amazon for £1.34 with the hopes of getting it cut and swapping the pcb.
Well after come on the slowest boat from china I measured it against the original and sure enough about 5mm to narrow.
Plan B take the back off the original and replace with back from cheapy china one..... Perfect fit!
No Toyota log (no bad thing) works A1 and cheap fix for £1.34

[Markb]

You needed the TOY41 blank.........these are good if you ever need another,Denso branded with Toyota embossed logo.....they had a piece of black tape over the logo so not sure if they were old stock or copies,they cut and work fine though.

 m http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Yaris- ... 27cd71709d m .

[Iandh]

Thanks for the link.
I'll see how the cheap fix last, certainly better than tank tape though.

[keljon]

Where do you get the blank cut, I bought a blank and went to timpsons but they wanted to charge me £35!!

[Fin]

It all depends which timpsons you go to.
We have 2 in town, 1 refused to cut mine because he sells the blanks. The other 1 did it for a couple of quid.

[Markb]

Where do you get the blank cut, I bought a blank and went to timpsons but they wanted to charge me £35!!

Local key place cut mine for a fiver each,that was copying of the key i had........cutting of the number tab is more expensive but i would have thought £10 or £12 would do it.

I paid £15 for 2 Ford Tibbe keys which are alot harder to cut........£35 quid is ridiculous for the Toyota.....theres places on ebay will supply and cut for under £15.