I was unlucky enough to have my 54 plate VRS stolen from the drive last night with the keys, following a burglary. The car was recovered about 20 minutes later, but the keys were not recovered so I'll have to get the locks etc changed.

Does anyone know how much this costs???? Will lose no claims on insurance and will have to pay £250excess anyway, so looking at just biting the bullet and paying it myself.

Anyone any advice????

It won't be cheap thats for sure, I guess in the region of £600!!

Probably best to claim through the insurance tbh.

Sorry to hear about your break in - must be gutting :(

I was unlucky enough to have my 54 plate VRS stolen from the drive last night with the keys, following a burglary. The car was recovered about 20 minutes later, but the keys were not recovered so I'll have to get the locks etc changed.

Does anyone know how much this costs???? Will lose no claims on insurance and will have to pay £250excess anyway, so looking at just biting the bullet and paying it myself.

Anyone any advice????

Sorry to hear about the theft. I suspect you'll be better off letting the insurance pay. You'll need the immobiliser re-programming to a new key and your spare key (assuming that didn't get nicked) new locks and new ignition barrel. This will be way more than the 250 excess...

I'm fairly sure a new key is about £120 by itself (cheaper than Saab ones if that's any consolation as the same thing happened to me last year although it was the spare key that was nicked as I was in the car when the house was burgled...)

However, as it was a result of a house burglary you may be able to get the household insurance to pay for this... Give them a call to find out

Do you still have the spare key?

Do you still have the spare key?

Yep, still got the spare.

Well it depends entirely on what you'd like to do of course, but the same happened to a friend of mine. There are a couple of ways forward, one is to have the entire lock set done, and the other is to have the remaining key recoded and delete the other keys from the system. You could also have the lock barrel covered over with a piece of steel (delocking these cars is common) so if they keys weren't just dumped and somehow they still have them and come back, they wouldn't be able to get into the car and they wouldn't be able to start the car as it would be no longer coded to the immobiliser.

I'd be happy to do the coding FOC if you wanted to pop down with the car. It depends if you think they still have the keys and what your thoughts are on it.

they still have them and come back, they wouldn't be able to get into the car

Can the remote unlocking actually be changed then?

I was under the impression that an originally coded remote would still open the car, even when the immobilizer had been blocked.

Can the remote unlocking actually be changed then?

I was under the impression that an originally coded remote would still open the car, even when the immobilizer had been blocked.

That's what Saab did to mine last year... the remote locking and immobiliser was told to forget about the stolen fob, the single lock was changed and the key replaced on the fob I still had and then a new key/fob provided.

No barrel change on the Saab as the metal key is only used for opening the door and doesn't actually go in the ignition...

I'd be amazed if the Volkswagen group cars couldn't do something similar, let's face it, if General Motors can do it then Volkswagen should be able to

You might have a point about that actually.. although I'm sure I've done it before. Edit - my post was in reply to Gizmo.

Edited 6 February, 201016 yr by shark_90

The reason i asked was (as you are aware) when you code the immobilizer through VCDS (which will forget any old keys) the remote is then coded separately.

It would be good if it could be done though

you should be able to wipe the remote memory with vcds same procedure as reprogramming them but just tell it there is 1 remote when doing so

Well it depends entirely on what you'd like to do of course, but the same happened to a friend of mine. There are a couple of ways forward, one is to have the entire lock set done, and the other is to have the remaining key recoded and delete the other keys from the system. You could also have the lock barrel covered over with a piece of steel (delocking these cars is common) so if they keys weren't just dumped and somehow they still have them and come back, they wouldn't be able to get into the car and they wouldn't be able to start the car as it would be no longer coded to the immobiliser.

I'd be happy to do the coding FOC if you wanted to pop down with the car. It depends if you think they still have the keys and what your thoughts are on it.

Basically, whatever the cheapest option is. If I claim on the insurance, my premium will go up by a few hundred quid and have to pay 1st £250 quid.

The car is actually my-ex's and we are about to sell it anyway. He now lives about 30 miles away so as soon as I buy something else, the car can be stored there. The octavia is in a compound until Monday and then I can keep it at work, which is secure.

just sell it with one key then, chances are if they dumped it they have thrown the keys away anyway very doubtful they intend coming back again for the car, cheapest option is get the hey you have recoded so the missing key will no longer start the car.

Basically, whatever the cheapest option is. If I claim on the insurance, my premium will go up by a few hundred quid and have to pay 1st £250 quid.

The car is actually my-ex's and we are about to sell it anyway. He now lives about 30 miles away so as soon as I buy something else, the car can be stored there. The octavia is in a compound until Monday and then I can keep it at work, which is secure.

OK, well if you want to bring it down then I'm happy to recode it FOC for you

OK, well if you want to bring it down then I'm happy to recode it FOC for you

That would be great, how much does it cost and where are you based?? Will have to discuss with the ex, as it's his car!