Spare Key

[jsweet]

Hey

Has anyone on here ever purchased a spare key from Maserati ? if so do you know how much ? mines very tatty. Thanks

I have the granturismo s

 

[ManInBlack]

You're looking at the best part of £400 by the time they program it & add the VAT if from Maserati dealer!

 

[spkennyuk]

Im not sure if this would be any good for you. If the key works but its just tatty then swap the parts into a new case.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301767148798

 

[spkennyuk]

They also do carbon fibre effect versions:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301755958198

 

[StuartW]

Is it easy to swap out the internals of the 3 button key?

 

[Jkulin]

I was looking at the Carbon one, but I read that the problem is getting the key cut, so of the cases you can just swap everything over including the key.

When I get a chance I was going to pop into my local locksmith and see if they can cut it.

 

[spkennyuk]

Swap everything over including the old blade into the new case.

 

[Wack61]

You're looking at the best part of £400 by the time they program it & add the VAT if from Maserati dealer!

maserati tax, my yeti only came with one key, a new key supplied and programmed to the car was £120 at a Skoda dealer, I bet the cost to Maserati is something similar

 

[Jkulin]

Swap everything over including the old blade into the new case.

Yes that is what I thought but some sites are saying that unless you get a true clone case that the key won't fit?

 

[StuartW]

Swap everything over including the old blade into the new case.

And is that as straightforward as it sounds?

 

[Wack61]

Seems not

http://www.klangford.com/Klangford/My_Mods/Pages/Key_Disassembly.html

There's a transponder epoxied into the casing that needs to be swapped over, I did read somewhere you can just dremel round it and put it inside the new case but it's not just a swap

 

[StuartW]

They don't make it easy!

 

[Wack61]

Don't know if these can help

http://abacuscaralarms.co.uk/alarmshop/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=4

 

[spkennyuk]

And is that as straightforward as it sounds?

Yes the blade is held in place by the plastic cover compressing a spring in a steel collar inside the hole in the blade. The plastic cover just twists anti clockwise into it. The only issue you might have is if the shape of the blade at the case end with the hole is a slightly different shape to the original blade.

There is another type of fitting for the blade that has a drift pin holding the blade in place. Im not sure which type yours is on the granturismo but both methods are fairly easy to do.

Having said that as far as i know key cutters take the blade out to cut it so im sure one would do it for you if you asked or if you wanted to have the new blade cut and still keep the original spare minus the inner electronics in tact.

Search flip key repair or blade change on you tube im sure there will be a few how to guides on there.

 

[Bruno]

The dealer in Madrid quoted the spare key at around 300€. I just bought a case from Aliexpress for 27€. I haven't received it yet. I will post the results when I get it!