Can anyone confirm if they have had a key made for a 2002 mk2.5 by Timpsons.
I recently went into my local Timpsons and was told they could supply me a replacement key for £95
I went yesterday to have the key made and was told (by the same person, frustratingly) that my key is special order and is actually £148.50
Can anyone advise, I just wanna get a spare made.
My Mercedes Infa-red key was less than that to have coded.
Jonny
Wow that is expensive, it would cost less to get a second hand set of locks with keys and swap them over.
I had a 2.5 1.6 Nevada for several years and it came, like so many, with only one key. Took it to a Mazda dealer (now defunct) in Chelmsford who charged me £75 for a replacement key which they then programmed to the car while I waited.
So I’d check out your local dealer before you commit to what looks a very expensive key!
I understood at the time that Timpson’s was an option for Mk2 models but not the 2.5. That of course may have changed.
My local Mazda dealer in Littlewick Green want £200+ VAT for one Key incl programmed!! Crazy!
Anyone know any good auto locksmiths locally?? Berkshire Reading area.
I’ll be damned if I’m gonna give Timpsons £148 quid
So you would give an auto locksmith £148 but your “damned” if you would give Timpsons that to supply a key!!!
If you read my previous posting you’ll have the background on this statement…
I’ll be ‘damned’ because I don’t like to give business to companies that can’t maintain continuity of their own information from one day to the next.
Hi Johnny81 - I’d be inclined to check another dealer then, because I find it difficult to believe the price of a key and programming from an official dealer has tripled in five years! (Or maybe that deal was part of the reason that dealer went into liquidation!)
Yep I agree I will try Newbury Dealer and see if the same. J
18 months ago I got a replacement key for my 05 2.5 Icon from Timpsons at Brooklands, Weybridge which cost £120 from memory. Unfortunately the 2.5 uses a rolling code system. It took nearly two hours to get the key. Phone calls have to be made to Mazda to obtain code numbers before the locksmith can programme the key. Mazda have to call back with info, hence the length of time. Apparently not all branches can do the job. Hope this helps.
To all concerned regarding key replacement ! Dealers are quoting £200 plus to supply and code have recently lost one of my NC keys !
With regard to Timpson was quoted today £ 150 for transmitter and £ 50 to code it !
So we are between a rock and a hard place.
Have just purchased a second hand key off EBay the owners club have a download on reprogramming if this works will only need Timpson to cut me a key
Regards Joe
I got a spare key cut with chip programmed from Timpsons today for £60 all done.
Not a flick out key with buttons, just a bog standard key as mine had only one key when I got the car. Open the car first then the boot and the alarm does not go off.
I know I will probably get shot down in flames but…
I live in France and only have 3rd party insurance ( no fire or theft ).
I cabletied the original chipped key under the ignition cowling, got 2 simple unchipped keys cut for a tenner from a guy on ebay from a photo…voila…cheap solution to the one key problem.
Timpsons, from my own experience of attempting to get keys sorted for my NC1, are that they are useless! From the get go where I went on their website which was woefully out of date, including giving out telephone numbers that no longer existed, to branch visit where they couldn’t quote for a complete key including coding. They were getting back to me ASAP, that was several months ago, still waiting. Move forward a bit, bought a blank key and refurbished fob off eBay, this time they refused to cut a customer supplied key, then relented by looking in their own stock. Ended up telling me I would have to go to Mazda as they couldn’t supply a blank? Go figure. Different branch, same extremely poor service. Walked a couple of hundred yards into my town market, £3 later ( well £5 actually, I was so grateful) and job done! I was always taught to speak as you find, others may have fared better.
Barrie
Joe, be aware you may be slightly confused here. if you have lost a ‘full’ key then it’s necessary to realise it has two distinct components. One is the key blade which has to be cut to fit the lock and which, crucially, contains a coded chip which has to be coded to the car to be recognised by the ECU and allow the car to start. You cannot code a new key to the ECU yourself. There is no way round this. This operation needs a Mazda dealer or perhaps an auto locksmith with the correct kit. Of course these suppliers will charge for the work.
The second component of the key is the remote (transmitter) unit with the buttons which locks and unlocks the car. A replacement remote does not need a dealer visit. You can code a new/replacement remote to the car yourself, but it requires a working key for the ignition. The DIY procedure detailed on the club website here does work - I used it a short while back when I replaced a faulty remote unit on one of my NC keys. The brand new remote part of the key cost c£100 and I just fitted it to my existing key blade. The coded chip in the key does not rely on the battery in the remote unit of the key. The car contains a coil around the ignition barrel which ‘reads’ the key chcip, in much the same way that contactless debit cards work.
(Just to add more to the mix. As best I understand it from this forum, some MX marks have ‘fixed’ key chip codes. Companies like Timpsons can clone a working key chip on to a new key so it works with the car. The car then has two identical keys. Some models have a ‘rolling’ code, where the car rewrites the key code on every use. These clearly can’t be cloned and definitely need a dealer visit to get a new key blade.)
JS