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04-02-2008, 02:50 PM
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Friends: 33 |  Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! Hey Hobbit, I have 3000+ posts so I haven't just popped up. I did it and it worked. I thought my post explained I had repeated the process described by 05 Solar Prius and I was saying information confirmed. I try not to tell too many lies. I also confirm the information you gave about the MFD, my MFD died a few days after reading about your fixing one and I dismantled mine and had an expert solder the connections. He saw that about 10 of the solder joints from 60 down to about 40 were cracked on my board (I seemed to have much less of that clear stuff on mine than the one you fixed up) so he re-soldered all the connections on that side of the plug for $25AU. I don't know if it's just me thinking this but the display seemed washed out before it stopped displaying information but now looks much sharper. Thanks heaps for your information, it saved me a lot of money. Does it matter where the information came from as long as it works? I might add, I tried programming the car to accept this same key fob once before from information on PC but failed, but following this thread I managed to do it.
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04-03-2008, 09:27 AM
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Friends: 23 | Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! Quote:
I have to admit that when I was originally reading the process I kept asking myself, "how on Earth would anyone ever consider doing all these things in this order?" I certainly don't have the imagination to come up with, "I'm going to reprogram an old fob and it just feels right to close and open the driver door twice." | |
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04-04-2008, 11:56 PM
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I love a challenge! It was like a puzzle. Do it in the right order and have fun doing it. It was fun!  | |
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04-05-2008, 08:16 AM
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Friends: 33 | Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! It's like the Prius game from Toyota. Rather than just a MPG race against yourself there are side challenges. I pulled this card from the pile, "Lost your keyfob, pay Toyota $400 or buy a fob from ebay for $50 and program yourself if you dare saving $350!" |
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04-09-2008, 01:21 AM
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04-09-2008, 04:21 AM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! Kudos for dogged persistence in trying all the permutations. It would have shortcut a lot of this back-and-forth if the OPs had simply mentioned that, i.e. a simple "this is original work" like in any academic paper. There is some info from Toyota, in TSBs and the like, about key programming, that many people have had trouble with over time [not meeting particular timeouts, etc] so my first thought was that all this was a rework of some of that to clarify an existing procedure that wasn't clear enough. . It's great to know lots of info about the car and its systems, and it's also great to know the derivations thereof because the background research is usually interesting and a good read. . _H* Last edited by hobbit; 04-09-2008 at 04:24 AM. |
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04-09-2008, 05:08 AM
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Friends: 33 | Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! I don't think anyone was attacking Tony just saying it works. I have seen similar stuff but this worked! I'm going on holiday on the savings. |
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05-01-2008, 09:57 PM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! Wow! This actually works! I researched the web for days to find this exact info. Thank you! You saved me $100..... |
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05-02-2008, 02:33 AM
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05-02-2008, 02:32 PM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Finally! How to program a non-SKS key/fob. Detailed! Not to rude, but... If any of you believe that this procedure was discovered through trial and error,... well,.... |
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