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Old Feb 13, 2022 | 05:24 PM
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Default Re: Sticky Key (More to it than I thought)

Originally Posted by Deepsea21
I've heard of some people who have a tumbler that has some offending wafers that don't retract all the way when the keys are inserted just grind down the wafers that are still protruding until they are flush again or remove them from the tumbler completely... Cheaper than new keys and a new tumbler and moving RFID chips around. A couple have removed all the wafers in the tumbler and just depend on the RFID chips to serve as theft protection. No thief is going to know the wafers have been removed from the tumbler.
Any other car Id be against doing that. As hard as these cars seem to be to keep starting right with the skreem stuff its probably not a bad idea.
 
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