"J. Patrick Brandt" <null@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:PQNhg.13569$Jk2.12457@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I have a new '06 MCS. I have the standard complement of two full
>remote-key-fob keys plus the plastic "spare" key.
>
> 1) rumor has it that the spare key will only work a certain number of
> times before ??? What? the car locks up? The spare doesn't work anymore
--
> permanently? until you use the real key again? what?
>
> 2) The dealer implies that there is no middle cost key - e.g. a real
metal
> key (w/o remote) but better than the "spare". Is this true? I would
really
> like a real, metal key, with RFID, but not the remote control bits, so
> that I can safely take it in my bathing suit into the ocean for a swim,
> etc... I thought there was a "valet key" available that was what I
wanted,
> but I don't remember where I heard this...
>
> Does anyone have a source for "real" keys that don't have the remote
> control built in?
>
Sorry J.P.B,
wrong News group,
try alt.autos.new-mini
Fitzy
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