E46 replacement key?

[Ozone]

Anyone know how much they cost from a dealer?

I have been to see an E46 330ci at a second hand dealer but it only has one key, everything about the car is what i want and i'm wondering if i can negotiate them down a bit.

[CypherP]

I paid for a new one for mine from Barons around 6 months ago, and cost £130 inc. VAT.

If you get one through the dealer I doubt you'd have much room to haggle, but worth a go I guess.

ETA: Just re-read that and realised what you meant. I guess it would depend on whether the car was bought with just the one key. If so, they may not be willing to barter a lot. I suppose a hundred quid isn't too much to drop by though.

Edited by CypherP on Monday 12th September 21:00

[Ozone]

Thanks CypherP, can you tell me if that price included any programming?

[tgr]

surely get them to throw in an extra coded key?

[Ozone]

I could try that, they are taking the view of 'take it or leave it' as there is plenty of interest for them not to budge.

[CypherP]

Keys come coded straight from Germany. I was told by the service guy at Barons that every car has around 4-5 keys pre-made and they just take a pre-coded key from their parts warehouse specific to the vehicle and chuck it in the post.

How much truth there is in this I don't know, but I'm sure that other manufacturers do a similar thing with regards to pre-programming a certain number of keys.