Lost remote key

why don,t you ask the dealer surely he is the person to
tell ya mechpete

Yes I will tomorrow, just thought others may have some clue, break it to me gently! Lol

If the remote fob has actually been lost you have a serious issue to do with your insurance I am afraid. Best to check with them as they may be prepared to help pay for a replacement and recoding rather than have to deal with the potential loss of a vehicle. As well replacing a key and recoding is a lot less cost than having to replace the complete engine management system which, in many modern cars, has to be replaced if you lose all the keys. Sadly cars may be more secure but the salesman rarely will tell you how expensive it can be it you do lose a key or more

Best of luck with the searching hopefully it is buried under a seat

Rob

G'day Julie,
My Dad lost the spare key to his new Subaru just recently & was quoted $450.00 for a new one.
Fortunately before he ordered a new one I found his spare keys had fallen between the drivers seat & centre armrest. You never know have a good look there.
Good luck with the Ross River virus. I had it 30 years back & it made me feel years older!
Cheers
Stu

Lost the key to my Landcruiser and Toyota quoted me somewhere around $800..00 as supposedly some bits under the bonnet had to be replaced.
Went to the local locksmith who sold me two blanks for about $30.00 but wasn't able to code them so took them to another locksmith who plugged in his magic box under the dash and coded the two keys for me. Took about 15 mins and cost me $30.00.

My Land Rover key can be cloned from the spare key if you have the right gear. I shouldn't call it a key because there isn't a key on it. Maybe the Isuzu is similar?

With the key for our Nissan Patrol, when we get a replacement one, all keys have to be re-programmed. If this is the case with your MUX, the lost/stolen one would no longer work.

Not sure about yours when my wife lost her Hyundai key it cost us $400 and they want the car for half a day which ends up being longer. But now one of the key cutters in the local shopping centre does all kinds he looks it up on the computer first I bought a new one for my daughters 2nd hand Kia Rio recently as it only came with one remote cost around $200 and it only took 45 minutes.

We were wondering as it has not turned up, if you can get engine immobilisers for the newer cars, as they already have an inbuilt one. Not sure if you could put a kill switch in them because they are so complex now. We always had switches in our older cars.

There are plenty of small tracker devices available that you stick on your keyring so you can track its location by phone.
Have you looked on Ebay or Aliexpress?

\Mate if you have a spare remote THE KEY Man will make you one a new remote and key for around 150 to $200
do not buy from the dealer it will cost you $500 or more

Picture what happens when you are way past Woop Woop and you go for a walk looking at sand dunes or whatever. You lose your keys. Oh dear! Even if you are covered by roadside assist or whatever, it is a long and expensive process to retrieve your car (flat top tow truck), get a new key (from the dealer or a locksmith), get it programmed and then get home, only to find that your other spare keys won't work because they all have to be programmed at the same time, so it is a case of another dealer to reprogramme all your keys at once. Awfully expensive...
Simple answer with a real key (none of these fancy keyless things) is to have a spare key hidden well inside the car (eg under the floow mat) and another non-coded key cut by a locksmith and wired up behind the front or rear bumper, where you can get at it when you need to, With a keyless arrangement you would probably have to encase the spare key in a metal box so that it could not activate the immobiliser or ignition etc until you wanted it to do so. You still need some form of getting into the car without breaking a window etc, but I am sure that could be arranged.
All this is not totally foolproof, and you can still lose your car if someone really wants it, but at least it saves a lot of angst if you lose your keys and return to the car and are able to get going again.