Spare keys

[Joepi5]

Hello!

No question or problem, just some information about spare keys. When I got my GS (god knows how many hands bike it is, certainly more than secondhand...). It only came with 1 key and the plastic thingy.

So began to search how and where to get a spare one. Didn't start at the dealer, because they are "expensive". local locksmiths all wanted the bike or the ecu there to program the transponder. Costs going up to well over 120 euros for just programming without cutting the key, cutting it would add another 20 euros. Sending the ecu back and forth would take up to 2 weeks.

Out of curiosity I did contact the dealer. Low and behold, it was by far the cheapest and easiest option available. Didn't even need to bring in the bike for programming. Got 2 spare keys at 70 euros each. Still expensive for a key, but by far the cheapest option. Ordered Tuesday and they arrived today, fresh from Germany. As it turns out "they only keeps 2 at the factory" is also not true that, my new keys are number 5 & 6...

Long stort short, dealer isn't the most expensive option by default. For me by far the cheapest, fastest and easiest solution thus time.

 

[Santa-2512]

Jeez you gota love the bikermate rumors

For info they store no keys at any factory, each bike or carset comes with precut keys, normally 2 but dependant on what the configutation is

all keys are coded to the bike / car and it wends its way down the proiduction lie,

out to the dealer and onto the customer

If you want a new key cut programmed, the dealer, after you provide the required security data will order new keys ,

they will come cut to your bikes original (if there is a phyical key) and may require coding to the bike

the factory do not keep or cut replacement keys

Keys are supplied by a tier one supplier who will supply what is known as a lockset

Keys fobs & lock barrels come as a set which is married to you bike / car on the production line

when you order a replacement an order is sent to the lock supplier to supply a spare / repalcement set (either a key ,. keys. fob, ) the rarity is the blank barrel & lock wafers which you code yourself)

they get sent to the dealer and coded / married to your bike car

based on bikermates says so the mothership would have a room with 8 million keys in it, hell of a lot of inventory to hold lol

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Hello!

No question or problem, just some information about spare keys. When I got my GS (god knows how many hands bike it is, certainly more than secondhand...). It only came with 1 key and the plastic thingy.

So began to search how and where to get a spare one. Didn't start at the dealer, because they are "expensive". local locksmiths all wanted the bike or the ecu there to program the transponder. Costs going up to well over 120 euros for just programming without cutting the key, cutting it would add another 20 euros. Sending the ecu back and forth would take up to 2 weeks.

Out of curiosity I did contact the dealer. Low and behold, it was by far the cheapest and easiest option available. Didn't even need to bring in the bike for programming. Got 2 spare keys at 70 euros each. Still expensive for a key, but by far the cheapest option. Ordered Tuesday and they arrived today, fresh from Germany. As it turns out "they only keeps 2 at the factory" is also not true that, my new keys are number 5 & 6...

Long stort short, dealer isn't the most expensive option by default. For me by far the cheapest, fastest and easiest solution thus time.

Just got a spare key for my 1150, via main BMW dealer

Had to come from BMW factory in Berlin, who sent order to an approved key supplier & onto BMW GB

Took a week and all the princely sum of £17.91

 

[Burridge01]

Just got a spare key for my 1150, via main BMW dealer

Had to come from BMW factory in Berlin, who sent order to an approved key supplier & onto BMW GB

Took a week and all the princely sum of £17.91

Jesus,I paid £230 odd both times I had a spare key made/cut-RT&GSA.

 

[richardbd]

Hello!

No question or problem, just some information about spare keys. When I got my GS (god knows how many hands bike it is, certainly more than secondhand...). It only came with 1 key and the plastic thingy.

So began to search how and where to get a spare one. Didn't start at the dealer, because they are "expensive". local locksmiths all wanted the bike or the ecu there to program the transponder. Costs going up to well over 120 euros for just programming without cutting the key, cutting it would add another 20 euros. Sending the ecu back and forth would take up to 2 weeks.

Out of curiosity I did contact the dealer. Low and behold, it was by far the cheapest and easiest option available. Didn't even need to bring in the bike for programming. Got 2 spare keys at 70 euros each. Still expensive for a key, but by far the cheapest option. Ordered Tuesday and they arrived today, fresh from Germany. As it turns out "they only keeps 2 at the factory" is also not true that, my new keys are number 5 & 6...

Long stort short, dealer isn't the most expensive option by default. For me by far the cheapest, fastest and easiest solution thus time.

You really think they keep spare keys at the factory?

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Jesus,I paid £230 odd both times I had a spare key made/cut-RT&GSA.

1150’s are cheaper to own

 

[Joepi5]

You really think they keep spare keys at the factory?

No, but it's something I've read on other forums. It wouldn't make sense that BMW keeps spare keys for every bike they ever made. The space and logistics needed would never be a real option, let alone be economically viable.

 

[SBD]

Ford could have done it. Rumour was that there were only 25 different keys for all the Cortinas & Capris ever made…

 

[Udders]

In a previous life I used to work in a die cast foundry. We used to make the keys for Squire padlocks.
I still have a FULL set of 25 different keys!
Hundreds of thousands of locks but only 25 different keys.

 

[JoeBiff]

Ford could have done it. Rumour was that there were only 25 different keys for all the Cortinas & Capris ever made…

As many as that? I thought it was about five
Fifty years ago, one Cortina key fitted 20% of all other Cortinas in the estate. DAMHIK

 

[Burridge01]

As many as that? I thought it was about five
Fifty years ago, one Cortina key fitted 20% of all other Cortinas in the estate. DAMHIK

You could open/start/drive away any ford's 40 years ago,didn't need a key.Also on the estate

 

[richardbd]

Ford could have done it. Rumour was that there were only 25 different keys for all the Cortinas & Capris ever made…

In the very early 80s I worked for a van rental business in Manchester. We had a big fleet of Transits. Only needed to carry one key around

 

[davegs]

I knew a chap who once had an Austin A30 car, hewalked into the firms car park and drove off in a green A30. He got up the road and realised it was not his car!, one size fits all.

 

[seahorse]

I once lost the key for my cortina at work and managed to get in to it using my locker key. Didn't need a key for the ignition as the lock barrel was already removed as a result of an attempted theft

 

[landmarkjohn]

Spent 20 minutes trying to get into my Vauxhall Cavalier once outside a job on a busy London street. It didn't help that I had been using the key as a screwdriver on the job and convinced myself I must have damaged it.

Stood back to take a breath and figure out next move when I realised "they're not my alloys". My car same colour was parked couple cars up. Good job it didn't open or I would have driven away

 

[claw]

In the 70's i had a tractor key, that could open and start nearly all Mercedes.

 

[Mallard]

In the 70's i had a tractor key, that could open and start nearly all Mercedes.

In the 60's I had a bike that didn't have a key! Who would have thought: Keyless ignition in the 60's. It was called 'Kick 'n Go'