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Let me preface this by saying that I live in a place with no car theft, and that it would not be the end of the world if my car got stolen. I would just buy another B7, probably would not even file an insurance claim.
I bought this car (2005.5 2.0t A4) with one key and having done about 10,000 hours of research, I have come to the conclusion that despite having access to VAG-COM and RFID programming tools, and blank RFID ID48s, there is no simple/cheap way to program the immo RFID (the rice-sized ID48).
I now have a cut key in an eBay fob, and it opens the door, and will in fact start the car for like 3 seconds before the immo kills it.
MY IDEA: I want to pop out the tiny RFID rice grain thingie in my original working key and Gorilla Tape it right next to the ignition tumbler (needs to be close to the tumbler to be read properly). This way, any key that turns the tumbler successfully will be "accepted" by the immo.
I wondering if there is some reason NOT to do this (other than making the car easier to steal) - has anyone done this, or heard of it being done?
Let me preface this by saying that I live in a place with no car theft, and that it would not be the end of the world if my car got stolen. I would just buy another B7, probably would not even file an insurance claim.
I bought this car (2005.5 2.0t A4) with one key and having done about 10,000 hours of research, I have come to the conclusion that despite having access to VAG-COM and RFID programming tools, and blank RFID ID48s, there is no simple/cheap way to program the immo RFID (the rice-sized ID48).
I now have a cut key in an eBay fob, and it opens the door, and will in fact start the car for like 3 seconds before the immo kills it.
MY IDEA: I want to pop out the tiny RFID rice grain thingie in my original working key and Gorilla Tape it right next to the ignition tumbler (needs to be close to the tumbler to be read properly). This way, any key that turns the tumbler successfully will be "accepted" by the immo.
I wondering if there is some reason NOT to do this (other than making the car easier to steal) - has anyone done this, or heard of it being done?
I call it the "5 minute immo delete"!
if you are doing well enough that wouldn’t even file an insurance claim if your car was stolen, why don’t you just go to your local dealer and buy a coded key for your car?
I'm not rich or anything, I just paid $2800 for this car, and then put a lot of sweat equity into it. Even if somebody broke into my locked car, they would still need to hotwire the car...
I'm 100x more concerned about losing a key or needed to give one to a family member or somebody in an emergency.
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Genius/idiotic idea for immo "delete"???
