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trol
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New ignition key and lock without programming
« on: Apr 14th, 2009, 8:52pm » |
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My Scorpio came with only one black key.
I had the chance to buy an "almost" new lock and key set.
I put all the locks in and tried to start with the new key, off couse it didn't...
Now comes the funny part 
I carefully cut the red dot out of the old black key, took the chip out and put it in my new red master key from the lock set.
Guess what, the car starts 
Then I programmed all the other keys with the "new" master key and the car starts fine with all of them
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Re: New ignition key and lock without programming
« Reply #1 on: Apr 14th, 2009, 9:07pm » |
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that's quite obvious  after programming all keys to work with you current immobiliser it just had to work
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Re: New ignition key and lock without programming
« Reply #2 on: Apr 14th, 2009, 9:07pm » |
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What age is your Scorpio? The later ones didnt have the red key, you may have had one of these.
what you could have done was just remove the metal part of the old key and glue in one of the new ones
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Re: New ignition key and lock without programming
« Reply #3 on: Apr 14th, 2009, 10:00pm » |
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My Scorp was built in december 1994 so it should have a red key.
The strange thing to me is that I can get a red key from another car, insert the chip from my own black key and use that red key to program all my other keys.
I didn't think the programming would work.
Anyway, I just saved 60 euros at the Ford dealer
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Re: New ignition key and lock without programming
« Reply #4 on: Apr 14th, 2009, 10:08pm » |
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Maybe it has been reprogrammed before?
Anyway good news! 
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Re: New ignition key and lock without programming
« Reply #5 on: Apr 14th, 2009, 10:18pm » |
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if this black key you got with your car wasn't original it's most likely it was programmed/reprogrammed by the keycutter with one of these machines that programmes all keys as master keys. Don't know how it works exactly but read somewhere that there are certain types of those programming machines that literally clone the master key, so that you may have 3 black keys acting as masters.
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Re: New ignition key and lock without programming
« Reply #6 on: Apr 14th, 2009, 10:32pm » |
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It's an original Ford key, it could be the previous owner bought a new master key at Ford and they were out of red ones
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