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Hi All
Im pretty new to this site this is my first thread. Could anyone help me I have just bought a 2008 fiat 500 1.2 pop for my daughter but require a spare key as it only came with one. Can you please advise the where I can get one and the cheapest pos price as I know they are a few quid.
Thanks

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fsollof1 said:
Hi All
Im pretty new to this site this is my first thread. Could anyone help me I have just bought a 2008 fiat 500 1.2 pop for my daughter but require a spare key as it only came with one. Can you please advise the where I can get one and the cheapest pos price as I know they are a few quid.
Thanks

fsollof1
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Remote keys are about 200 quid or so and are a dealer only item. You can get non-remote keys cheaper ponsaloti will be able to help with one of them.
 
fsollof1 said:
Hi All
Im pretty new to this site this is my first thread. Could anyone help me I have just bought a 2008 fiat 500 1.2 pop for my daughter but require a spare key as it only came with one. Can you please advise the where I can get one and the cheapest pos price as I know they are a few quid.
Thanks

fsollof1
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Sadly, a lesson learnt here. Every Fiat 500 as far as I am aware, comes with a spare key. If the seller has only got one key, then always negotiate a suitable discount to purchase another one. I suspect whoever owned the car before, just couldn't be bothered to find it when they sold the car. Of course, I have no idea how many owners the car had before you, so it could have genuinely been lost a long time ago. Did you buy the car privately or from a garage? If from a garage you really should have asked them to stump up for another key, or contact the last owner named on the V5 (if not the garage) and ask them if they still have the spare key. I ain't by no means perfect, but every car I've sold on in the last 15 years has been handed over with two keys.

Oh, and another reason for asking why the car hasn't got two keys!

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co....plex-vehicle/story-20550567-detail/story.html
 
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frupi said:
If from a garage you really should have asked them to stump up for another key, "

When we bought our first 500 the garage was not happy about having to stump up for a spare yet on trade in day they double checked our 11year old trade in had both working keys! Its a shame that the buyers didn't do the same thorough checks. Our new (4month) 500 came with no spare (5th Dec floods) the garage resupplied us with spare remote key then 2 weeks later gave us another none remote key.
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IJK said:
frupi said:
When we bought our first 500 the garage was not happy about having to stump up for a spare yet on trade in day they double checked our 11year old trade in had both working keys!
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Yup, that's called double standards I'm afraid. And I would have told them to wind their necks in or I would have walked away. Until buyers become more savvy, then this sort of thing is always going to happen. How any dealership (especially francised dealers) think it is acceptable to flog a motor without all of what the car is supposed to come with, is just poor. The only way to treat car dealers like that, is to walk away and find another, especially if they start arguing the toss over something they should have sorted before they attempt to flog the car.
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Sorry for clicking on an old thread. My wife lost her one and only spare key for her Fiat 500 (it dropped out of her handbag into the overhead luggage compartment on the plane). We've been in touch with the airline and the airport's lost property but are waiting to hear back.


We took a photo of the key with its code when we first bought it because the seller only supplied one key and were just wondering if we can get another from somewhere? Do we need to go to a Fiat dealer?
 
Poynton.
Following an hysterical episode we've ended up ordering one from Auto Keys...£330 and he'll come to our drive and re-programme it.
 
I drive the local Community Bus and it's a Fiat.
There are half a dozen of us drivers and we all have a key each.

There's no way on God's Earth that we paid 300 quid EACH for those keys.

Regards,
Mick.
 
I know. It sounded ridiculous to me but we phoned the Fiat dealer and they quoted £220 and we'd have to have it towed to them.
Going to try and claim on the travel insurance
 
This was never going to be cheap.

The official franchised dealer process goes something like this.

1. Obtain sight of the vehicle registration document to verify the legitimacy of the request for a new key.

2. Order a new key through the internal ordering system based on the car's chassis number. This gets you a key that will physically unlock the car.

3. Obtain the electronic key code from the central register (in the UK, insurers won't permit owners to have the electronic code for security reasons).

4. Use Examiner (Fiat diagnostics) to program the car's body computer to allow the immobiliser to recognise the new key.

I'm guessing this would cost you in the order of £175-£250 plus the cost of either a tow in or a home visit from a mechanic with an Examiner, and it'd take about a week.

(Edit: I was typing this post while the OP was composing the previous one, lol!)

jetsetwilly said:
Going to try and claim on the travel insurance
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Good luck with that. They will likely say that you contributed to your loss by not having a second key.

On a related note, expect also to be given a hard time if your car is ever stolen and you can't physically produce both keys.
 
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Hmmm. I remember seeing the key in her bag and thinking that's not gonna end well.
Hoping to get the replacement key by the end of the week. Will update on the travel insurance (fingers crossed though I suspect you might be right)
 
jetsetwilly said:
I know. It sounded ridiculous to me but we phoned the Fiat dealer and they quoted £220 and we'd have to have it towed to them.
Going to try and claim on the travel insurance
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Words fail me on this sorry tale. Next time anyone goes to buy a modern car with electronic programmable keys, don't buy the car with only one key. Bit late for hindsight and all that in this case, but as far as I am aware, all cars when new come with two keys. No matter what lame excuse they come out with, if a dealer, franchised or otherwise, or private seller says they've only got one key, walk away or make them go through the hassle of obtaining a new key before parting with any cash.

Of course I realise jetsetwilly this will ultimately have an adverse effect on you having only had one key in the first place. When you come to sell, you're going to either have to bite the bullet and get another key to complement the only one you will soon have, and to push the point, when we PX'd our old POP, the purchasing Fiat dealer was absolutely insistent about two keys or they wouldn't go through with the deal without me taking a very large hit on the PX price, or you might be lucky and just get that independent dealer or private buyer who won't be bothered. I'm just sorry for you that you've been extremely unlucky this time round.
 
After the financial pain of this, we might see if we can get another off @ponsaloti just in case and for when we come to resell.


I'm not even going to mention it was a Catd
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I keep the second key securely locked away, along with the paper copy of the handbook and all the other ephemera that came with the car. If I misplace the primary key (it does happen), I firmly resist any temptation to use the second key and spend however long it takes to find the primary*.

Losing the last key on any modern vehicle is likely to lead to a nightmare experience.

*a process which often involves the use of language unbecoming of a moderator
 
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jrkitching said:
I keep the second key securely locked away, along with the paper copy of the handbook and all the other ephemera that came with the car. If I misplace the primary key (it does happen), I firmly resist any temptation to use the second key and spend however long it takes to find the primary*.

Losing the last key on any modern vehicle is likely to lead to a nightmare experience.

*a process which often involves the use of language unbecoming of a moderator
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yeah good plan i do the same. once i dropped a car key in a public rainfall manhole cover! i didn't bother retrieving it, it was so deep = ) The car was going to be sold shortly afterwards anyway. I did it a 2nd time with my Fiat (dropped it into manhole cover), so this time it wasnt too deep but i called the water utility people and they came and fished it out = )
The Smart we lease has 2 keys, the rental company gives us only one but then i went to the rental company and took the new key as the old one's button failed.
 
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A little story about our Clio we've had since brand new in 2001.

We have two keys, but one of the electronic packs has packed up. This is the second one to do this and at this present moment, we have only one working key, though the defective one will still open the doors ................. but not stop the alarm and will not start the engine.

When the first one went, we called in at the local Renault dealer and they ordered a new pack for us. When it came in, they phoned us and we went down to collect it.

They took the car into the workshop for a few minutes, then brought it back and charged us £145. (Just looked it up in the records it was done in June 2011) I can't see us paying to fix the defective one as yet. Maybe if and when we sell the car.

No doubt if you've lost the whole item, there would be a charge for a new metal bit. As our Clio's is a removable item, we could probably get a new bit cut at the local key cutters.

Regards,
Mick.
 
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