v8 Vantage Glass Key Wont Unlock Car but will start engine
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Just reading your other recent posts I am now wondering if you put your whole car in the washing machine ?!
I'm no expert but would answer your 3 questions as follows.
1. anything else I can try to get the key working? or has the water damaged the remote capabilities? Sounds like it.
2. At the moment I have to use the spare key, is it possible to swap out the guts of the spare to put into the glass key? Yes - if you talk very nicely to your local Dealer they may have some spare glass keys knocking about.
3. what is the most cost effective way or replacing the guts of the glass key? the outer part still looks ok.I would concentrate on 2 above.
I'm no expert but would answer your 3 questions as follows.
1. anything else I can try to get the key working? or has the water damaged the remote capabilities? Sounds like it.
2. At the moment I have to use the spare key, is it possible to swap out the guts of the spare to put into the glass key? Yes - if you talk very nicely to your local Dealer they may have some spare glass keys knocking about.
3. what is the most cost effective way or replacing the guts of the glass key? the outer part still looks ok.I would concentrate on 2 above.
Upon collection my V8V had a fully working valet key and a glass key that did exactly this. I knew this when I bought it and negotiated accordingly!
We (me and one of my tech staff) were able to swap the innards over so I now have a glass key that does everything and a valet key that just starts it (and a physical manual key to open it if the glass key dies).
not a 100% solution but at least it is better that way round and saved me nigh on £1000
I can ask the chap if he is prepared to try and repeat the trick? No guarantees of course but when we opened mine up it did look like water damage!
We (me and one of my tech staff) were able to swap the innards over so I now have a glass key that does everything and a valet key that just starts it (and a physical manual key to open it if the glass key dies).
not a 100% solution but at least it is better that way round and saved me nigh on £1000
I can ask the chap if he is prepared to try and repeat the trick? No guarantees of course but when we opened mine up it did look like water damage!
Both the glass key and the valet key have the same internals. These are a small circuit board and a smaller black lump that is glued to the shell of the key.
The circuit board unlocks the car and arms/disarms the alarm. The black lump is the transponder that talks to the ignition when you insert the key and which allows the engine to start up.
It sounds like you have fried the circuit board but not the transponder. Though it is possible that there is still some moisture inside the glass key that is shorting something, and that if you open it up and dry the internals, the circuit board will come back to life.
You can open up your valet key and your glass key and swap the circuit boards around. Instructions are here: https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/aston-martin/4... It's a 15 minute job. Opening the valet key requires more force than you'd think. If you use a sharp knife on each corner to break the glue seals it helps.
Then you will have one fully functioning key, which will be the glass key.
To get your valet key to work, you need a fresh circuit board, and crucially you need the key code for your car. With the key code an AM dealer can code the new circuit board to your car. Without it, they can't, and I don't think the dealers are able to look up key codes for cars.
The circuit board unlocks the car and arms/disarms the alarm. The black lump is the transponder that talks to the ignition when you insert the key and which allows the engine to start up.
It sounds like you have fried the circuit board but not the transponder. Though it is possible that there is still some moisture inside the glass key that is shorting something, and that if you open it up and dry the internals, the circuit board will come back to life.
You can open up your valet key and your glass key and swap the circuit boards around. Instructions are here: https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/aston-martin/4... It's a 15 minute job. Opening the valet key requires more force than you'd think. If you use a sharp knife on each corner to break the glue seals it helps.
Then you will have one fully functioning key, which will be the glass key.
To get your valet key to work, you need a fresh circuit board, and crucially you need the key code for your car. With the key code an AM dealer can code the new circuit board to your car. Without it, they can't, and I don't think the dealers are able to look up key codes for cars.
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