used to be you could go and get a duplicate key for about $5 total- maybe $10- then along came ‘smart keys’ with chips in them, and getting a duplicate now costs well over $100- some as high as 3-400 after all the programming is doen to them by the dealers who are the only ones ‘qualified’ to program the keys (unless you go online and find the corre4ct combination of brake taps, door lokcs, and horn blowing to properly program the key)
Now they want ot have a several hundred dollar device as the ‘key’?
My $100 Smartkey for my car doesn’t let me take pictures with it, talk to people, text people, keep a calendar, keep a Rolodex, watch movies on it, listen to music on it, have a mapping program on it, get the weather forecast on it ... AND/OR ... post to Free Republic! ... LOL ...