Keyless

[Deleted account 211025001]

You need to seek professional help !
I had a trawl through old posts ad you seemed pissed that I agreed with him a couple of times.

Hilarious....

Sorry Walt, I know you find these things a bit complicated; one minute you're a dashing home counties airline pilot spamming the site with tedious, boring, one dimensional racist posts and the next you're a pharmacist from Scotland............ in fairness it would do my head in if it were me, my days of split personalities are long gone.

Anyway, I don't want to fuck this thread up anymore than I have done with pointless, non technical banter so please, drop me a PM and we can have a chat. I'm dying to hear all about your change of career, what led you to choose Pharmacy and what retraining was involved

Andres

 

[JerseyNeil]

I have learnt something here!
So....... if you have keyless you can still be 'car-jacked' and loose your bike but, and here's the clever bit, you still have a key worth about one hundred and sixty quid that you can flog on eBay

Us feckless retards with the old fashioned system loose our keys too............. I'm in! off down to our local dealer to invest

 

[Nutty]

Indeed it is You must have your new bike by now, ready for the weekend





Andres

You swine.

 

[Deleted account 211025001]

You swine.

Joking aside, I do feel for you, really. Hope it's not toooooo long a wait

Andres

 

[Dwaind]

No, normal ignition. But, as has been discussed WBM have only supplied one key for the GS for the past 10 years or so, this is nothing new and peeps kicked off back then when WMB stopped giving two keys back in the day...........

I'm sure Nutty will confirm the position on keyless if he ever gets his 1290

Andres

Funny that.....my 2013 triple black adventure came with two metal keys and an emergency plastice one, just when did BMW start supplying only one metal key?

 

[Nutty]

Joking aside, I do feel for you, really. Hope it's not toooooo long a wait

Andres

Shouldn't be more than a couple of weeks.

 

[Nutty]

Funny that.....my 2013 triple black adventure came with two metal keys and an emergency plastice one, just when did BMW start supplying only one metal key?

It's just on the GS. My XR came with 2 metal keys.

 

[GS_or_bust]

Given that the bike is described as 'Keyless' I would say you are lucky to even get one key.

 

[dinku]

on a similar theme...here`s the scenario

i`m sitting at lights in neutral, keyless key in my pocket. i then get bike-jacked and someone pushes me over and nicks my bike...not unheard of.

will the bike recognize that the key is then not within range and turn off the engine at some point or can it still be ridden but just not started again ?

If the bike has not stalled then it will keep running. Only when the engine is switched off it won't turn it on for obvious reasons.


Happened to me on one occasion where I lost key due to leaving it in the top box lock. 10 min later key symbol flashes but bike continues to work. Stopped for a coffee and then realised key missing.

Very surprised as the key turned up in the local police station 24 hrs later. Somebody had handed it in.

I was all ready to have the key replaced and as I last resort thought why not try the police station.

 

[Dwaind]

Just FYI,

Picked up FOC second wireless key from post office today, dealer sent it signed for and I was out.

Sometimes it's worth complaining.

Dwain

 

[Dwaind]

Just FYI,

Picked up FOC second wireless key from post office today, dealer sent it signed for and I was out.

Sometimes it's worth complaining.

Dwain

And I have just opened the bag containing the key that would have cost me £165.00, it's a blank, it's also not programmed to the bike, I have to do that by holding it to the sensor above the rear wheel.

If I had paid £165.00 I would be livid.

Dwain.

 

[Wapping]

There's no pleasing a Tosser from Ram's Arse, it seems.

 

[Dwaind]

There's no pleasing a Tosser from Ram's Arse, it seems.

Perhaps you could elaborate on where I can get it cut, my understanding is that cut keys are factory only. So you are quite correct, minus the immature language, I am not pleased.

 

[Wapping]

Perhaps you could elaborate on where I can get it cut.....

Perhaps you could try calling the two key cutters in post #4 of this thread, talking to them on the phone (radical as that might seem) and / or troll around assorted key cutters in your neck of the woods to see if you could find someone to take on the task of satisfying you.

Failing either of those inspirational thoughts, try a Google (oooh, there's a wild one, right out of left field) of something like, er.... let me see.... er..... Laser cut keys, or... um.... cut me a car key, maybe adding BMW for the full-on search experience.

 

[fatnfast]

There's no pleasing a Tosser from Ram's Arse, it seems.

................

 

[Dwaind]

Perhaps you could try calling the two key cutters in post #4 of this thread, talking to them on the phone (radical as that might seem) and / or troll around assorted key cutters in your neck of the woods to see if you could find someone to take on the task of satisfying you.

Failing either of those inspirational thoughts, try a Google (oooh, there's a wild one, right out of left field) of something like, er.... let me see.... er..... Laser cut keys, or... um.... cut me a car key, maybe adding BMW for the full-on search experience.

You really are missing the point, I know can get the key cut by photographing my key and sending the new wireless key off for cutting, however as I had to submit my vin number to get a new key I question why it hasn't arrived cut, also if the key is cut incorrectly what then? Perhaps I should then spend £165.00 to get a new one and start all over again. When would this spiral of failure stop.

 

[Wapping]

You really are missing the point, I know can get the key cut by photographing my key and sending the new wireless key off for cutting....

I'm really missing the point? How so?

You asked:

Perhaps you could elaborate on where I can get it cut, my understanding is that cut keys are factory only.....

I replied (elaborated) with some reasonably straightforward suggestions. Seems remarkable on-point, to me. If you already knew how and where to get the blank cut, why ask the question or tell us that your understanding that it's a factory job only?

.... however as I had to submit my vin number to get a new key....

If I had to guess, because BMW need to code the uncut transponder key to the specific receiver on your bike, so that when you hold it against the box of widgets under the wheel arch it works. If BMW didn't, you might as well hold your house key or a three week old kipper there. Have you tried holding the blank key you've just received via the Post Office there and starting the bike? Have you tried doing it with the spare plastic key, I think you received when you picked the bike up?

On the 1600 you hold the spare plastic transponder key close to the petrol cap, as described in the owner's handbook. But, that's a different, non-GS 'Adventure' bike, as bought by the self-reliant bikermates of England. Why do BMW (apparently) put a receiver under the wheel arch on a GS, when it's up on the fuel tank on the 1600? I imagine, it can only be to enhance the ruggedness of the GS owner and the bike, kneeling on the rocky piste, the sun beating down, bandana ringing wet with sweat and the vultures circling.....

....I question why it hasn't arrived cut...

Because BMW couldn't be arsed, I guess.

Ask BMW to elaborate, I suggest.

.... also if the key is cut incorrectly what then?

What then? Four possibilities, at least:

1. It won't lock / unlock the pannier or seat locks

2. It'll jam in the locks

3. You'll need to complain to whoever cut it... and on here, too

4. You'll cry

...Perhaps I should then spend £165.00 to get a new one and start all over again....

Yup, maybe you should.

When would this spiral of failure stop.

When you do the above. Failing that, stick to driving your two key Series 5.

 

[Duraace]

I got two blank keys cut yesterday at my local key/shoe place. Took him ten minutes - you don't need factory involvement!

They're for seat/pannier use for me and the Mrs. I already have two transponders (proper key +emergency key). I'm happy with that to be fair.

If you got two proper keys then they bike would only cost more money wouldn't it?!

 

[Bake]

I for one think you should be commended for sticking by your principals that the bike should come with two keys ( and getting one for free )

 

[Wapping]

I got two blank keys cut yesterday at my local key/shoe place. Took him ten minutes - you don't need factory involvement!

He knows that, apparently. Though you might not have guessed it from post #153, I grant you.

Now, what's the answers to his other more pressing issues in post #156?