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      10-11-2013, 07:01 PM   #1
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New Comfort Access key FOB

Hi guys,

My new car only came with one key (previous owner was a slob in many ways) and I have been looking into getting another.

A call to Brisbane BMW quoted the key at $1050 plus an hr of coding.

A call to BMW Sydney quoted the key at $1300 in total.

I know keys are expensive and you just need to bend over somewhat but this is absolute rubbish considering the real value of the key and 15 min coding time. Particularly as the guys in the US pay around $300 for the same key, probably from the same place in Germany. (Ah the joys of living in this outrageously expensive sunburnt country on the bottom of the globe )

Has anyone run into this issue in Aus and found an acceptable workaround?

Any help would be appreciated.

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      10-12-2013, 01:02 AM   #2
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Hi guys,

My new car only came with one key (previous owner was a slob in many ways) and I have been looking into getting another.

A call to Brisbane BMW quoted the key at $1050 plus an hr of coding.

A call to BMW Sydney quoted the key at $1300 in total.

I know keys are expensive and you just need to bend over somewhat but this is absolute rubbish considering the real value of the key and 15 min coding time. Particularly as the guys in the US pay around $300 for the same key, probably from the same place in Germany. (Ah the joys of living in this outrageously expensive sunburnt country on the bottom of the globe )

Has anyone run into this issue in Aus and found an acceptable workaround?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
I'm heading over to USA tomorrow, so I'll be sure and ask some of the guys there. If I can get an answer for you I'll shoot you an email.

Having an Electronics Engineering background I see this sort of blatant ripoff all the time with circuit boards. The cost of the board would be less than a burger
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      10-12-2013, 01:10 AM   #3
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Does this help?

http://bmwfans.info/parts/catalog/E9...emote_control/

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      10-12-2013, 01:13 AM   #4
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holy cow..~~ over One G for piece of plastic ( probably made in China ) with some basic circuit board inside ( probably made in Taiwan ) put together in Germany, shipped over here to AUS ......

but yeah....what you gonna do, it is what it is.
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      10-12-2013, 01:28 AM   #5
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The previous part appears to have been updated:


http://realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?...=41&fg=40&hl=7

http://www.ecstuning.com/Search/SiteSearch/51210033996/
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      10-13-2013, 08:24 AM   #6
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Good grief - that's insane. I remember years ago paying $550 for a set for my E46 M3, and I thought that was expensive...
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      10-13-2013, 05:43 PM   #7
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ECS won't do them anymore. I need one too.

I can get one direct from germany around $500 but haven't done it yet. There's a guy in Melbourne who sells the blank ones for about $200 but he needs to code them. Would be cheaper to fly him up!!
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      10-13-2013, 06:32 PM   #8
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Sounds ridiculously expensive. I bought mine CPO from a dealer and asked for a 2nd key, which they mailed me two weeks later for free. Another dealer coded it for me for free, but I know a couple techs who hooked me up.
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Yes it's f***** insulting. The BMW dealers have a little oligopoly going given we're totally hamstrung and unable to get these parts elsewhere freely. The ACCC should crackdown on this sort of behaviour....

You can imagine their response, the poor BMW owner being ripped off by the dealer!

But seriously there is basically 0 value add and GPM of like 95%+.

This site looks promising. Anyone have experience?

http://www.bimmernav.com/store/catal...-item-318.html
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SOLVED.

I bought a cut comfort access key from Bimmernav for $380 USD shipped to Australia. This arrived in around two weeks.

A call to Brisbane BMW with a request to code a comfort access 'third' key resulted in a quote of $40 to code to suit.

Still close to $500 but much more palatable than $1100.

FYI: Bimmernav required a copy of my drivers licence, passport and rego docs to verify ownership. I assume they needed to provide this to BMW Germany.
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Nice work. Was the coding just for the CA feature to work?
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SOLVED.

I bought a cut comfort access key from Bimmernav for $380 USD shipped to Australia. This arrived in around two weeks.

A call to Brisbane BMW with a request to code a comfort access 'third' key resulted in a quote of $40 to code to suit.

Still close to $500 but much more palatable than $1100.

FYI: Bimmernav required a copy of my drivers licence, passport and rego docs to verify ownership. I assume they needed to provide this to BMW Germany.
Did you have the lost key coded out?
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