Hi all!,
Ok I'm that guy, the person who had one key and now its gone spent most part of today searching the area where we think it must have fallen out of a pocket, been to the police station to see if its been handed it but no joy.
So I've talked to the local ford dealer who referred me to a locksmith whos quoted $800 +gst as he said it will require 3 keys to be programmed into the PATS system, which I'm not at all keen to pay that much as its just a hobby van and nearing the end of its life rust wise so I don't want to spend that and then have it fail the next warrant of fitness.
So I then asked the dealer if they could somehow by pass the immobilizer which led me down the worm hole of ringing this person and that, but basically being told that I could bypass it only if I have the older mechanical type fuel injector pump not the electric pump that's currently installed... is this correct? does anyone know how I could bypass this PATS immobilizer?
I appreciate the fact that you might not want to advertise how its done publicly so please feel free to pm me... obviously happy to show proof of ownership etc
But basically my plan is to cheap skate my way through this problem by removing a door look and taking it in to get a key matched, then hopefully being able to disable the immobilizer and just using a key without a chip to avoid the ridiculous $800+ fee for a old lemon
or maybe I could get a second hand ignition barrel with the key to match, would that work?
If I sound clueless its because I am
All help is very much appreciated.
Thank you!