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RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 2:46:16 PM    finch13 Posts: 4278 Joined: 6/7/2007 From: St. Paul, MN Status: offline And to answer the OP's question, yes, the world has gone crazy! _____________________________ USE ME TO SEARCH HAF PWOTY 2008! (in reply to finch13) Post #: 16

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 3:57:44 PM    Tony1M   Posts: 583 Joined: 12/25/2005 Status: online My daughter is 40 years old and has owned cars for years.  Her 91 Toyota Celica was recently rear-ended in an intersection by a distracted pick-up driver.  The resulting damage was enough for the insurance company to "total" her car.  You can imagine what the insurance company paid out for the car. No, I don't doubt her ability to not lose her keys.  What I DO doubt is the ability of the manufacturer of any new car and the manufacturer of any of these fancy keys to produce something that will function reliably for as long as the key for our 92, or her 91, has lasted.  In fact, I would doubt very much if those fancy keys or the receiving devices in the cars of today are going to reliably last for even HALF as long and even that is probably optimistic. Of course today's 19-year-olds would not only not expect anything to last that long, they probably don't realize that it  can, AND SHOULD, be designed to do just that. BTW, what powers those keys - a small nuclear power plant?  Please don't tell me it's a battery....please. _____________________________ Tony 1992 Accord LX, 4AT, 4 dr, no AC, no power anything (in reply to finch13) Post #: 17

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 4:43:56 PM    finch13 Posts: 4278 Joined: 6/7/2007 From: St. Paul, MN Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: Tony1M BTW, what powers those keys - a small nuclear power plant?  Please don't tell me it's a battery....please. From Wikipedia: Passive RFID tags have no internal power supply. The minute electrical current induced in the antenna by the incoming radio frequency signal provides just enough power for the CMOS integrated circuit in the tag to power up and transmit a response. Most passive tags signal by backscattering the carrier wave from the reader. This means that the antenna has to be designed both to collect power from the incoming signal and also to transmit the outbound backscatter signal. _____________________________ USE ME TO SEARCH HAF PWOTY 2008! (in reply to Tony1M) Post #: 18

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 5:48:37 PM    tnguyen600   Posts: 115 Joined: 10/6/2007 Status: offline yea, its mad expensive but if you have a friend that works at the dealership, you save a whole lot. My buddy works at honda and i had a key made for about 4 bucks but the retail price would be 40 bucks roughly. dealers mark up the price a lot. _____________________________ 98 Honda Accord EX Coupe V6 -Tein Super Street Coilover -Suspension Tech Sway bars -AEM CAI -Unorthodox SS 3-Piece Pulley -Apexi WS2 -OBX header -Goodridge SS brake lines (in reply to finch13) Post #: 19

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 6:28:50 PM    nafango2 Posts: 1108 Joined: 8/18/2007 Status: offline the way RFID works is there is two parts, a tag and a reciever. the reciever broadcasts a signal. The tag (part in the key) recieves that signal, modifies it, then "bounces" it back to the reciever. It gets all the power it needs from the original signal. the reciever knows the "code" on the "chip" in your key from the signal that was bounced off the tag. _____________________________ 96 Accord LX 4cyl. 4dr AT w/o vtec (F22B2) Security System / Keyless entry (in reply to tnguyen600) Post #: 20

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 7:06:36 PM    imthehink   Posts: 32 Joined: 4/16/2008 Status: offline There are alot of locksmiths who can make a copy of chiped keys. I got my mustangs key done for 45 bucks. They have the same equipment the dealerships have. _____________________________ 98 LX Coupe 93 Jeep Cherokee 01 Mustang (in reply to nafango2) Post #: 21

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 5/30/2008 9:38:07 PM    gomarlins3   Posts: 519 Joined: 2/14/2008 Status: offline One of my friends had to get a 2nd key for her Pilot and payed $130 for her new key (including programing). (in reply to finch13) Post #: 22

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 6/2/2008 9:55:45 AM    KevinAccord Posts: 1012 Joined: 4/30/2007 Status: offline i wondered why the key i bought for 2.50 didn't work... So it costs aroud what for my/Jon's car? _____________________________ 2000 Accord LX i4 Turbo AT 18" Konig Unknown Rims MSD 6AL Gold Line Suspension Apexi Neo Few other Mods... Mini Cooper 2006 MT HID's 17" Rims Premium Package Sport Suspension Short Shifter Panoramic Sunroof Stock Engine (For (in reply to gomarlins3) Post #: 23

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 6/2/2008 10:05:19 AM    finch13 Posts: 4278 Joined: 6/7/2007 From: St. Paul, MN Status: offline Between $100 and $150 to get it done at the dealer. Maybe cheaper if you go to a locksmith. Thank God our keys don't have the keyless entry transmitters built into them. Basically, you pay $2 to have them cut you a new key and then $148 to program the RFID tag in it. _____________________________ USE ME TO SEARCH HAF PWOTY 2008! (in reply to KevinAccord) Post #: 24

RE: $150 for a key? Has the world gone crazy? - 8/9/2008 7:32:15 PM    MY1stHonda*Accord*EX   Posts: 4 Joined: 8/9/2008 Status: offline i wonder is they make key covers like they do for cell phones now, there so thin, could they really make them for keys? do they? (in reply to finch13) Post #: 25

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