Transponder Keys

As part of our wide range of locksmith services, we offer automotive key services including transponder keys as well. We are perceived as experts inside of the automotive key industry and we stock keys for most current and old make and model vehicles in the market. We normally guarantee faster automotive key make service faster than at a lower price than the dealer.

Faster than the dealer...

Most automotive dealerships don't frequently manage issues identified with a vehicle's key. That is why they don't have selection of keys in stock and will not be promptly accessible around the same time you require them. Waiting for a key to be sourced from a different location and be made can take days.

Most locksmiths in Reno are providing a solution to that situation by stocking a wide range of keys for most make and model vehicles, so when a new key is in need, the customer won't have to wait several days to have it made and instead would be accommodated at the same day. What improves the services of a Reno locksmith even more is the fact that all of the keys you purchase from the company will be less expensive than if you really had the key bought and made at the dealer.

The differences with traditional and transponder keys...

Most vehicles in recent years have a key incorporated which is doing a job of 3 keys.
These keys work mechanically permitting manual opening of the vehicle's door, the ignition key along with a transponder chip that is embedded into the key and required to starting the vehicle and a remote control key to permit controlling the locking mechanism remotely.

Older model vehicles were not so efficient when it came to the keys. Even nowadays, not all vehicles incorporate remote locking technology. You can particularly notice its absence on rental cars.

A standard key will normally operate the door, trunk and even the ignition cylinder of the vehicle without starting it. This means that that particular vehicle work with a transponder chip system.

Transponder Keys have genuine transponder chips inserted into the plastic cover of the key. They are customized with a specific code that your vehicle will perceive. As you turn the key in the ignition the code is perused and in the event that it is observed to be lost or not the correct one, the vehicle essentially won't start. For that particular reason, anytime a transponder key is made, the locksmith would have to program it in order for it to work.