New Replacement Key For C4

[jay1h1]

Hello everyone- this is my first post :)

 

I need a new key for my C4 but Citroen say it will be about £220 including programming it to my car. is there any other way I can get one as i can't afford that price yet i desperately need a replacement key.

 

Any advice greatly appreciated thanks,

 

Jayne

 

[paul.h]

Welcome to the forum.

 

If your existing key still works but it is just the case that needs replacing, these can be bought on ebay and you put the inside bits from your existing key into the new one including the blade. Should not be much more than about £5 and since your existing bits are used it does not need to be programmed. If the battery is removed whilst doing this there will be a procedure to follow in your handbook. For a complete new one £220 seems about £100 too much - so if you need to go this route shop around and try via the internet but it will need to be programmed.

[Molandme]

That's interesting, paul.h. I recently bought a C4 which only had one remote key. The dealer gave me an uncut key and the money to have another one cut but he did say that it wouldn't work as a remote because it had no chip. The original key was a bit "floppy" so I thought I'd prefer to keep that as a spare and buy a new remote. I spoke to several people before I contacted out local Citroen dealer and nobody suggested that I could just swap over the "innerds".

 

Anyway, in response to the original post, the replacement key I bought from the dealter cost me £104 and then it cost me another £48 to have it coded. For that £48 I could have had any number of keys coded though.

 

Just shows how they vary from place to place. I hope the OP has got his new key sorted by now.

 

Nora

[paul.h]

Citroen standard for keys for the C4, Xsara Picasso and new C3 (but not C5) seems to have become one remote key and one key without the remote but both have an internal chip for the immobiliser so the doors can be unlocked with the key, and the engine started. If you need a second key without the remote locking (as given by the dealer to have cut) it would still need the right immobiliser chip to work. Inside a remote key, is a small circuit board for the remote and a battery plus the immobiliser chip - these things and the key blade are all moved to a replacement case that is about the £5. On some remote keys the immobiliser chip may be part of the circuit board.

[Molandme]

Thanks. I did think of taking the old one apart and trying to put it in the new one given to me by the dealer - but decided to leave well alone, at least this way I have two useable keys!

 

Nora