Key Fob cost

[alldodge]

Remember when you had a key and it cost maybe a dollar to get a copy made? While I do like the Fob the cost has gone astronomical.

Wife's 2012 Caddy (bought 2014) was bought used and only had one fob. That's BS, so we spent another $200 to get one programmed and key cut.

She gets a 2023 Caddy and dealer can not find the 2nd Fob nor the manual. Said we will look for it and trust us we will make it right (Ohio dealer). So after 3 weeks I find our local KY dealer has a Fob and will do the work. Said it will be more then $400 and they say, go ahead and we will reimburse.

Bill to program new Fob and cut key is $457.04
$88.90 for key
$187.18 for transmitter
$5.09 for shop supplies (who the heck knows what supplies you use other then a computer)
$25.87 Tax

Give me a Break, I found one at Walmart site listing Fob and blank key for under $40

 

[silverbul]

Bought this off ebay. Works and have made a little money on the side.

 

[Fun Times]

Not sure on your exact model, but typically if you input all your vehicle basic information and put key fob in the address bar online you’ll get many places that will either sell a fob for like $40.00 and have a YouTube type video showing you tricks within the vehicles features of how to program the new fob usually without having to use a dealer type scan tool to help program.

 

[matt167]

You need 2 fobs or keys to self program in almost all cases, without extra hardware.

My wife never had a second key for her 2015 ram. I bought a smart key programmer and programmed 4 EBay keys for it. The smart programmer cost $90 and came with one key. The keys off eBay were $10 each. I’m not sure what magic is in that smart programmer but it works

 

[Scott Danforth]

I bought GM key blanks and GM fobs from a GM parts site and used the local dealer to cut 2 keys and pair the fobs. Doing some legwork saved me a few hundred

 

[aspeck]

I do prefer the old keys over the fobs.

 

[alldodge]

I know I could find it cheaper and the manual does show how I could program it. I bought new because the dealer couldn't find the 2nd one and said they would reimburse.

The older 2012 manual didn't list how to program so I went to dealer

 

[KJM]

speaking of new tech in cars, my BIL just bought a new Nissan and he said if he passed out while driving the car would pull over to the side of the road itself and call 911????

 

[FLATHEAD]

speaking of new tech in cars, my BIL just bought a new Nissan and he said if he passed out while driving the car would pull over to the side of the road itself and call 911????

Alldodge, love the caddy’s. Wife had a 2016 ATS coupe with the 2 liter turbo, fun comfortable car to drive.
Crazy the tech in cars. We bought a 2022 grand Cherokee new and the book for just the technology is hundreds of pages. A lot of stuff we will never use. I’ll stick with my low tech 2500 HD thank you very much.

 

[62Scout]

Heh...newest car I own is a 2004 Suzuki XL-7, and the only fob it has is for the aftermarket alarm system.

Had a 2004 Cadillac STS for a while, and while it was certainly a nice car with some nifty features (I have to admit, the outside mirrors that automatically angled down when in reverse was pretty handy for parking lots), I find myself enjoying driving the "basic" 1959 International and 1973 Pontiac more and more every day. Really the only thing keeping me from making them daily drivers are the difficulty in finding clean sheet metal in the event that they're involved in a colllision, and why the Suzuki and 1996 Chevy Pickup are the current dailys.

But the repairs on that Caddy were insane. Seemed like every time something broke on it, I was breaking out multiple hundreds to fix it, and the newer the car, the higher those numbers get. I'm a little scared about the next decade or so where it's going to be harder and harder to get clean examples of cars older than 2005 or so.

 

[bruceb58]

First thing I did when I bought my 2018 F150 was to buy two new fobs and program them myself. Each Fob was around $50

 

[Scott06]

Remember when you had a key and it cost maybe a dollar to get a copy made? While I do like the Fob the cost has gone astronomical.

Wife's 2012 Caddy (bought 2014) was bought used and only had one fob. That's BS, so we spent another $200 to get one programmed and key cut.

She gets a 2023 Caddy and dealer can not find the 2nd Fob nor the manual. Said we will look for it and trust us we will make it right (Ohio dealer). So after 3 weeks I find our local KY dealer has a Fob and will do the work. Said it will be more then $400 and they say, go ahead and we will reimburse.

Bill to program new Fob and cut key is $457.04
$88.90 for key
$187.18 for transmitter
$5.09 for shop supplies (who the heck knows what supplies you use other then a computer)
$25.87 Tax

Give me a Break, I found one at Walmart site listing Fob and blank key for under $40

Toyota wanted $550 for one for our 16 Highlander after we lost the second one... I saved a few bucks buying the fob on line from same dealer as they discount their web parts vs walk-in... saved about $100...