Baloo
Member Since: 26 Apr 2008
Location: Wiltshire
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I have just lost one of my keys and paranoid that they will get into the wrong hands only to wake one morning to find the car gone. I have been in touch with the dealer to find out the cost of re-locking the whole car, which came out for the parts alone including 2 new blippers at £360, which wouldn't be unreasonable but you then have to get it all fitted and programmed with the final bill nudging £600.
At this stage I am loathed to go to that expense as I am pretty sure I might have put them somewhere around the house in an obscure place ( oh, the beauties of getting old) and I am almost convinced it will turn up.
Has anybody got any cheaper solutions that will make the car secure, until I find the key.
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 5th Nov 2008 9:27 am |
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AVE
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Nov 2006
Location: First house on the left
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Put it in the garage... Park another car behind it on the drive..
Then search every square inch of the house again and hope you find it! As you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
Disco XXV
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY16
Discovery Sport HSE Lux MY17
Evoque HSE Dynamic MY16 (Gone)
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY14 (Lovely car but preferred the Disco!)
Disco 3 Tdv6 HSE MY05 (owned for 11 years and now gone)
Range Rover Sport HSE MY11 (Gone)
Freelander2 SE (Gone but the most reliable car we've ever owned)
Disco 2 V8 (Gone)
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| 5th Nov 2008 9:32 am |
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NHR
Member Since: 13 Dec 2007
Location: Warsaw
Posts: 923
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Including all jacket/coat/trouser pockets!
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| 5th Nov 2008 9:36 am |
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flinty99
Member Since: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Northumberland
Posts: 2558
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Down the back of the sofa and in the bread bin (don't ask on that one)
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| 5th Nov 2008 10:08 am |
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blue meanie
D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
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Baloo wrote:
Has anybody got any cheaper solutions that will make the car secure, until I find the key.
you could ask your LR dealer to 'unpair' the one key until you find it, I've no idea how much workshop time this would cost you though. and theeeeennn......???
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| 5th Nov 2008 10:11 am |
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DaveVX
Member Since: 15 Oct 2008
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 867
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does your car insurance cover "lost keyes" ?
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| 5th Nov 2008 10:39 am |
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90BHP
Member Since: 18 Oct 2006
Location: Half way along the road on the right
Posts: 3706
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Bet your house insurance does though  "To finish first, one first has to finish ...."
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| 5th Nov 2008 11:22 am |
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Roel
Member Since: 16 Aug 2008
Location: home
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If it would be a Volvo they might need the key to impair it  Roel
1997 Camel Trophy Disco ex-P101JWK (traded it for a Britains 42101)
1984 90 TD5
2005 G4 Disco 3 BN55WPT
Also member of club MTR
and Club Faultmate
Interested in my 4x4 history see my website: www.mudmachine.webklik.nl
Sorry it's in Dutch and with google translator it gets funny.
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| 5th Nov 2008 11:41 am |
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cdodkin
Member Since: 18 Aug 2008
Location: Ex Pat Brit in California
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check the washing machine 
I found wifey's car keys rolling around in the wash cycle when I walked past the machine and heard a strange scratching noise from inside.
It was the keys scraping against the glass door 
As for temporary add on security.
I bought my own wheel clamp when I used to park in central Leicester - put it on every day, and that kept my car from being a target.
http://www.saundersonsecurity.co.uk/acatalog/Wheel_Clamps.html 08 LR3 SE V8 - 02 D2 SE7 V8
Porsche 911 (03 996) - 2013 MINI Cooper S
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| 5th Nov 2008 3:49 pm |
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TallPaul
Member Since: 03 Jan 2008
Location: Near Reading
Posts: 1214
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so THATS why Land Rover make the keys waterproof to 3 meters...
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| 5th Nov 2008 4:04 pm |
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AVE
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Nov 2006
Location: First house on the left
Posts: 3097
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Let us know when and indeed where you find them!! As you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
Disco XXV
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY16
Discovery Sport HSE Lux MY17
Evoque HSE Dynamic MY16 (Gone)
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY14 (Lovely car but preferred the Disco!)
Disco 3 Tdv6 HSE MY05 (owned for 11 years and now gone)
Range Rover Sport HSE MY11 (Gone)
Freelander2 SE (Gone but the most reliable car we've ever owned)
Disco 2 V8 (Gone)
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| 5th Nov 2008 4:07 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
Posts: 16534
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The lost key can be de-registered from the vehicle without any problems, although it will still open the door using the emergency lock and turn in the steering lock it won't start the vehicle or be able to deactivate the alarm
Unless there was some form of ID on the keyring, how would any potential finder know which vehicle it belongs to?
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| 5th Nov 2008 4:10 pm |
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Rescue01
Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Aberdeen
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Hoi TFC nice picture in your avatar   Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
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| 5th Nov 2008 4:34 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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yer, reminds me of the 'red hot chilli pipers' for some reason 
Still having flashbacks but the 'Bombay' therapy seems to be working slowly
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| 5th Nov 2008 4:36 pm |
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