Timpsons and the Cost of Car Key Cutting

[anonymous-user]

boyse7en said:

Simpsons wouldn't even cut a blank for me.

I had bought a blank Ebay key and transferred the electronic bits across into it, so just needed the blade cutting to match the old key.

The Timpsons guy wouldn't cut my blank as they hadn't supplied it. Company policy i was told.

So I asked how much for a blank key from them that they would cut. They couldn't get hold of the blanks...

Still wouldn't cut my key

He's talking rubbish. The Timpsons close to my work cut a new key with a blade provided by me, no problems.

[anonymous-user]

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

He's talking rubbish. The Timpsons close to my work cut a new key with a blade provided by me, no problems.

That's a bit harsh. Timpsons are a franchise. It's up to each owner/manager . They are not going to all be the same.

[selym]

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

boyse7en said:

Simpsons wouldn't even cut a blank for me.

I had bought a blank Ebay key and transferred the electronic bits across into it, so just needed the blade cutting to match the old key.

The Timpsons guy wouldn't cut my blank as they hadn't supplied it. Company policy i was told.

So I asked how much for a blank key from them that they would cut. They couldn't get hold of the blanks...

Still wouldn't cut my key

He's talking rubbish. The Timpsons close to my work cut a new key with a blade provided by me, no problems.

Well, more than one shop must be talking rubbish as the one I went to said the same. Perhaps the one you went to just didn't give a fk, or are you sure it wasn't Trimpsons or something?

[Shakermaker]

RogerDodger said:

That's a bit harsh. Timpsons are a franchise. It's up to each owner/manager . They are not going to all be the same.

I don't think they are a franchise, I think they own all of the shops/outlets

edit:

That doesn't mean that one manager/shop worker at one store won't say the same as the manager/worker at another store, it just means that one of them is wrong and one of them is right, or they are both right at the time it was told. A relatively moot point though. The OP has reached a satisfactory result, but chose not to use TImpson, because the price he was quoted was higher than a quote from elsewhere.

Edited by Shakermaker on Tuesday 18th September 16:20

[TooMany2cvs]

ToothbrushMan said:

only wanted a plain key so no buttons or immob.

You didn't want to use this key to actually start and drive the car, just to unlock the doors?

[505diff]

I had my own supplied Audi key cut FOC at Timpson because it was not on the system to put it into the till, the guy did say beforehand the blades can break when cut and that would’ve down to me. A second branch cut me a Yale type key FOC as the key blade I’d got did not match the blades they had, the key worked fine. Both times I put some cash in the charity box on the counter and everyone was happy

[kylos27]

Take the immobiliser chip out of a working key , and stick it to the ignition barrel with araldite or similar . Then just get a normal unchipped key cut for £8 .

[rallycross]

Triumph Man said:

Apparently they "don't touch BMW keys" even for a 23 year old 5 series! (Admittedly it has a transponder chip in the key but still).
...

I ordered a spare key for a Bmw mini from Bmw a couple of months back, plain basic key no buttons but with the programmed ecu chip from Bmw - £23 - was very surprised!

[Willy Nilly]

They wouldn't cut me a new key for my bike when I needed one, something about it being coded or something. Took it to a local locksmith and it took him about 2 minutes and changed me a few quid. I've never been back to Timpsons since.

[vikingaero]

I use this chap:

https://www.remotefobcentre.com/

£30 for a flip key remote including cutting and transferring the electronics over from the standard sticky outty key.

[toastyhamster]

Mixed experience here. VW fob lost the wotsit that the actual key pivots on, like most thought this would be an easy fix, so popped into local Timpsons (2 minutes walk inside a Morrisons). They couldn't do it as they don't stock the fob, "but the one in Loughborough does". Drove to Loughborough, no they didn't and it'd be £160 quid anyway.

Ebay got me a blank and an empty fob for the pivot, local Timpson took pity on my story and cut the blank for free as he couldn't guarantee it would work.

Bodged it back together with a combo of two fobs and although the spring up function when you press the button doesn't work very well it'll do as a second key I rarely use.

Found the sodding original pivot a couple of days later.

[rallycross]

vikingaero said:

I use this chap:

https://www.remotefobcentre.com/

£30 for a flip key remote including cutting and transferring the electronics over from the standard sticky outty key.

Good tip.
Anyone else got one I used this guy a few times

[rallycross]

rallycross said:

Good tip.
Anyone else?
I’m in Surrey and have used this guy a few times

[blade7]

A993LAD said:

My daughter recently bought a 2012 Fiesta but it only came with one key.

She went into the local Ford dealer and they wanted £250 for a spare key because they said it had to be programmed for the central locking and the immobiliser.

But a quick search on eBay revealed a company that supply a remote key fob which they cut to suit your car from a photo of the original - all for the princely sum of £31.

To be honest I thought this highly unlikely, but worth a try. So I took a photo of the original key on my phone, placed the order on eBay, and sure enough, two days later the new key arrived. The key worked perfectly in the door lock and the ignition lock and it came with printed instructions on how to synchronise the central locking and immobiliser functions with the fob which took my daughter about two minutes to achieve.

It was a great result and I was very surprised that the whole thing worked from a single photo for such a low price.

Here is a link to the item I bought

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Fiesta-2008-2012-n...

And just in case that doesn't work here is a link to the sellers eBay shop

http://www.ebaystores.co.uk/Car-Key-Repair-Service


No connection. Apart from as a happy customer for this one purchase

He needs the key or the car present for a fully programmed replacement AFAIK. £50, good service and worked perfectly.

[Triumph Man]

rallycross said:

Triumph Man said:

Apparently they "don't touch BMW keys" even for a 23 year old 5 series! (Admittedly it has a transponder chip in the key but still).
...

I ordered a spare key for a Bmw mini from Bmw a couple of months back, plain basic key no buttons but with the programmed ecu chip from Bmw - £23 - was very surprised!

Wow that's very good!

[anonymous-user]

selym said:

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

boyse7en said:

Simpsons wouldn't even cut a blank for me.

I had bought a blank Ebay key and transferred the electronic bits across into it, so just needed the blade cutting to match the old key.

The Timpsons guy wouldn't cut my blank as they hadn't supplied it. Company policy i was told.

So I asked how much for a blank key from them that they would cut. They couldn't get hold of the blanks...

Still wouldn't cut my key

He's talking rubbish. The Timpsons close to my work cut a new key with a blade provided by me, no problems.

Well, more than one shop must be talking rubbish as the one I went to said the same. Perhaps the one you went to just didn't give a fk, or are you sure it wasn't Trimpsons or something?

It was Timpsons on Cheapside. Not sure what the swearing is about though?

[bobtail4x4]

we have "lost" 2 out of 3 five lever house door keys,
timsons wanted £10 per key.
its cheaper to buy another lock and fit that, it comes with 3 keys.

[selym]

ruprechtmonkeyboy said:

It was Timpsons on Cheapside. Not sure what the swearing is about though?

Ok, I apologise. Perhaps the proprietor of said key cutting outlet was either unsure of company policy, or more likely did not care one jot for their edict, hence his reaction in the positive to your outlandish (in relation to Timpson T&C's) request.

[TooMany2cvs]

...or he just chalked it up to a cheap bit of customer goodwill.

[thebigmacmoomin]

I remember back when I had a Mk1 Ford Focus modifying a Jaguar X-Type to work on it. They have the same key blade so just a case of cutting the plastic off the Focus key and fitting it into the nice Jag flip key. Looked nicer than the Ford key.