Well in my wisdom & I dont tend to give up that easily along with my many an hour checking the keys systems & relevant immo chips etc I decided maybe there's an easier way to get the newer 05 onwards style key for my 04 car, now I did actually buy 2 keys of the bay & audi couldnt code them, which was strange cause they did the same for my S4 B6 & worked, so couldnt understand why, so I decided to take my immo chip out of my old keys & stick in top of the new keys, managed to do one key but broke the other chip given they're glass & the glue used in top of old keys is solid as hell, but had one key anyway & programmed remote for locking systems so one key worked fully only cause of chip swap.
So after my many calls to key pro's, emails, readups etc I discovered that the keys are VIN encoded & brand coded from audi germany, then sent to the stealers to finish the coding with the car & other keys over the net, also there are varying immo versions that have had more & more security added by audi on each new version, along with different version megamos 48 immo chips, it just became a headache but I finally got answers for my many questions, infact 2 stealers couldnt answer me, whats new there huh, even master tech didnt have a clue why wouldnt work.
So basically I thought outside of the box here a little, ok etka shows the newer style keys under the 8P from 05, it uses the same frequency as my car, immo systems on the 8P havnt changed so effectively I should be able to order it for my car, parts guy was optimistic & he knows when I ring to throw my vin number out window as nothing I order generally is for my car, lol.
So he ordered the new style key with my key number & vin expecting it to come back as invalid order, low & behold he said unbelievably the new key has arrived, precut & its the new shape aswell, couldnt fecking believe it, old 04 style car can order a newer style key, think was about £50 odd & then coding by stealers which is 30 mins top.
I ordered the 8P0837220D which is a 434mhz remote which covers 433-434, check your remote frequency, I'm going on saturday to get key & coding done, I'll confirm 100% it works then or not.
But just goes to show if you try your luck on things sometimes the shortest path is the easiest & quickest, very shocked it worked out as knowing audi systems I've come across for years thought was gonna be an impossibility given the key listed for the car was old style.
Not gonna count chickens just yet but I'm 99% sure its gonna work given audi would have tested the key & it wouldnt have got to stealer if wasnt coded to a degree, audi can be thick on somethings but generally on these things they're **** hot, so cross fingers new keys sorted for older 8P's.
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