[No_IS_Yet]

Hey yeah first time poster, long time reader. and i was wondering does the is300 have laser cut keys?

 

[JW]

Looks like someone's been watching Gone in Sixty Seconds...

A while back my family got a duplicate key for our ES300 made. The key appeared to be mechanically cut (ground?) since I could see swirl marks in the metal. I don't know about newer keys though.

[This message has been edited by JW (edited January 18, 2001).]

 

[PMD911]

Originally posted by No_IS_Yet:
Hey yeah first time poster, long time reader.

That's funny... Where's Stilwell, Kansas?

 

[No_IS_Yet]

Stilwell well its in johnson county if you know where that is. and up north and on the borderpf missiouri and kansas

 

[SophieSleeps]

If you remember the movie, they referred to the Merc keys as both "laser cut keys" and "laser cut transponder keys"

The important part of the description is "transponder". The transponder is the only part of the key that is an theft protectant.

There is a receiver that must receive an exact signal from the corresponding transponder key to start the car.

I don't believe being laser cut is an theft deterrant. A key works by pushing against springs on the inside of the lock. This method itself allows for some error. Making laser cut keys would not be any different than having them machine cut, forged, filed with sandpaper or latino cut...

As long as the pins are pushed up in the lock, the key will turn. I think the laser cut feature is a gimmick.


Our cars have the transponder keys and corresponding receivers.


If I am wrong, someone please learn me.

 

[No_IS_Yet]

thanx for the info

 

[Rookie84]

Have you guys seen Benz keys? Well, I don't know about previous or other models, but 2001 S-class's key has no metal part. That key's really cool. The key has computer chip or whatever in it, and it sends signal to the car when it's in the ignition switch. If the signal does not corresponds, you can't turn on the engine. I think that car is unstealable unless the thief has the exact same key for that particular car.

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[ZERO]

wonder if the keys are as easy to get as they were in the movie... lol...

 

[deepcover]

I believe they refer to center channel cut keys as laser-cut. Ask a locksmith about picking one of these and he will tell you that "picking" one of these locks a great deal harder than a traditional key design. But the trnsponder does work wonders as well.

 

[SophieSleeps]

Ah...
i forgot. I was thinking about the slightly older keys that flipped out.

Now I remember the new ones..

I still thint it's roughtly the same. Key is still there, just smaller and harder to see.

Center cut? I believe our keys are the same correct? That is what you mean right?

 

[deepcover]

Yes, I read an article re: the new Lexus keys and locks long ago. One of the situations they mentioned was someone locking keys inthe car, and a locksmith trying to open it. After four hours the locksmith gave up.