![]() ![]() We’re living at a time when a lot of the existing vehicle technology has been decrypted.Īside from Mercedes and BMW cars-both of these brands use special encryptions that the industry hasn’t yet sussed-pretty much all forms of car key can be copied.Įven the famous ID48 chip (pictured), a chip whose encryption is so complex that it needs a supercomputer to decode, is within our capability. How come we can copy encrypted chips? As with everything encrypted, there’s always a fight between those who designed the encryption and those who are trying to decode it. It sounds totally daft, but that’s pretty much what happens. What information is programmed on your motherboard? Before we go ahead, I’d like to check that you’re also the car I’m mean to start. Car to chip: What information is programmed onto you?.In other words, instead of the car merely reading the data programmed onto the chip, you get this: Nowadays, though, most cars use chips with much more encryption, and the checking process is more of a dialogue than a one-way check. If the data checks out, the car will start. The car checks whether they have the correct data written onto them. The oldest, most basic transponder chips work on 125kHz, much like the other fobs that we can copy. If it can see one, it will check whether it’s the right one. If it can’t ‘see’ one, the car won’t start. Once the key turns, the car sends out a signal to check for a transponder. The second layer is then the transponder. ![]() If these are wrong, the key won’t turn in the ignition. The first level is the shape of the key and its cuts. What actually is a transponder chip? A very rough approximation is this: the car’s security has a number of levels. So, now that the cutting of the key is behind us, let’s talk about the most important bit: cloning the transponder chip that goes into the key. The more cuts there are, usually the smaller the margin for error. If one or two of them are in the slightest way out, the whole key might stop working. If one of those cuts isn’t quite perfect when you copy, you might still get away with it. On a normal Yale key, you have five cuts. This means that you need to ensure you cut the right set of cuts onto the right section of the new key blank. Without it, you need to pay plenty of attention to ensure you’re cutting it properly. The so-called shoulder makes it easy to align the original key with the new key in the key machine. They’re tricky to cut for a number of reasons: It has four rows of cuts, rather than the usual two that non-laser car keys have. The SX9 key looks more like a key than the Tibbe, but it’s quite funky in its own way. Ford has been phasing out Tibbes for a few years now, though, in favour of laser keys. ![]() I suspect that it had some special advantage back in the day maybe it was harder to pick than other car keys on the market. I admit that I’m not really sure where the Tibbe lock comes from, or why it was invented. These can be made on the Triax, but need special equipment to make it work. If you saw a Tibbe key out of context, you’d be forgiven for not recognising it as a key. The famous ones are Tibbe keys (used in many Fords, especially Ford Transit vans) and the SX9 key, found in Citroëns and some Peugeots. (Most motorbike keys are like this, too, as well as many Japanese cars.) Older keys are, if not laser keys, normal side-cut, Yale-style keys. Most car keys nowadays are laser keys, which can be made on the Triax machine. They’re similar to a lot of other types of key, and our key machines are all versatile enough to be able to make them. The easy bit: cutting the keyĪs experienced key-cutting professionals, it’s not such a big deal for us to cut car keys. ![]() You may have already read that we at Metrolocks can now copy car keys! It’s big news for us, and we’re proud to have mastered the process.īut how exactly does it work? What’s the procedure? Is it safe, is it legal? In this blog post, we’ll answer all those questions. ![]()
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