I need to get a new key or two as well. I just bought my MINI a few
months ago, but it was an '02 MCS, and only came with one key! I'm
living dangerously, I know!
dauph
J. Patrick Brandt wrote:
> Bingo! That's where I remember reading about the "$35" key.
>
> I guess I'll just have to go to the dealer and try to order one.
>
> Thanks for the link, it was bugging me where I saw it.
>
> "dauph59" <dauph59@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:fc0ig.6860$Ui7.4746@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>J. Patrick Brandt wrote:
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>I'm not positive, I'm only passing along this information. On the
"North
>>American Motoring" web site I found some good info on the "valet" keys.
>>Check it out:
>>
>>http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61035&page=2
>>
>>dauph
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