additional keys
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additional keys
I recently purchased a used ML430 from a dealer in Georgia and had it delivered to Virginia. It came with only one key.
I stopped by the Mercedes dealer in Fredericksburg to order a couple of additional keys at a cost of $131 each plus a $65 charge to program them into the car.
The dealer just called to advise that a maximum of 8 keys can be programmed into the cars electronics. The previous owner had all 8 keys programmed in a and it is not possible to add another key. The fact that the other 7 keys are gone is irrelevant.
The only way to add keys is to replace the Engine Control Module, the AAM and both lock cylinders (in the drivers door & the steering column) at a cost of around $3,000.
This must be a prime example of superior German engineering, or did they learn this from Chrysler?
I am an engineer... an electrical engineer. I simply reject this answer. There should be a way to erase or delete the codes for the other 7 keys. Toyota lets you have 5 keys, and new keys bump older keys off the list.
Any ideas on how to get around this issue, which sounds more like a bureaucratic problem... actually, it is known as an "aparatchik", the loving term applied to old soviet era bureaucrats.
I'm looking for a way to do it with an ECU programmer, but then I still need to get a dealer to order the keys and programming them into the car.
Suggestions?
Thanks, Fred
I stopped by the Mercedes dealer in Fredericksburg to order a couple of additional keys at a cost of $131 each plus a $65 charge to program them into the car.
The dealer just called to advise that a maximum of 8 keys can be programmed into the cars electronics. The previous owner had all 8 keys programmed in a and it is not possible to add another key. The fact that the other 7 keys are gone is irrelevant.
The only way to add keys is to replace the Engine Control Module, the AAM and both lock cylinders (in the drivers door & the steering column) at a cost of around $3,000.
This must be a prime example of superior German engineering, or did they learn this from Chrysler?
I am an engineer... an electrical engineer. I simply reject this answer. There should be a way to erase or delete the codes for the other 7 keys. Toyota lets you have 5 keys, and new keys bump older keys off the list.
Any ideas on how to get around this issue, which sounds more like a bureaucratic problem... actually, it is known as an "aparatchik", the loving term applied to old soviet era bureaucrats.
I'm looking for a way to do it with an ECU programmer, but then I still need to get a dealer to order the keys and programming them into the car.
Suggestions?
Thanks, Fred
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