Does the key inside your spare fob unlock your doors? Sounds like the PO gave you a fob for another car, or at least an unprogrammed one.

Sounds like you're going to have to tow the car to the dealership to get a new fob programmed.

I wonder if there's anyway to ask the dealer to reprogram the key FOB? I mean, what if someone got a hold of your functional key fob and starts Z hunting and finds your car? They can take it out for a joyride or worse yet, chop shop?

I tried the actual key, it does unlock the door. You mean to tell me I would have to tow the car to the dealer just to have a fob programmed for it. With all the technology you would think they could do that without the car being there.. no? Also the car is still under warranty wouldn't that fob be covered if it never worked?

That's a really good ? OP. My knee jerk reaction would be that the fob is not covered. I'm sure interested to find out though.

When I bought my Z last week it only came with one fob. Dont know where it got lost along the way from the used dealer but anywho, the fob itself was like 130 and the "labor" or synching it up was another 70 or so. It came out to something about 215. Pretty stupid if you ask me.

I think they have to have the fob and the car unless you have the little metal dog tag that comes attached to the key ring when the car was picked up new. If you have that, I think they can reprogram the fob by itself. If you don't, I think you have to take the car to the dealer.

i do have that tag its attached to my dead fob!

Take it to the dealer where u got the Z and theyll be able to make u a new one / reprogram the dead one

so I called the dealership i have to have the car present to do that. how much b.s. is that. So now I have to get a tow truck to tow my car and scratch it all up just to get a f_____g key made. What ever happened to the day where u stick a key in the igntion and drive away.

I did find out too that metal tag is for the cut of the actual key inside the fob, it has nothing to do with the programming code. So what the best way to tow these cars so they don't get all scraped up? Flatbed?

Flatbed, yes.

You might have lost the key also. lol

So what's the point of the fobgina? We all heard it was to start the car when the fob battery dies.. but apparently not.

You can't do that if you have the wrong key, can you? That's your current problem. You have a key that you can stick in the ignition, but it's the wrong one. Did you ever check to see if your spare fob actually works with the car it came with?

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