Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
You haven't priced replacement keys for other cars, have you? Long gone are the days where you can 'cut' a key and start the vehicle. My 2006 Vulcan and 2005 Ranger have no anti-theft RFID chips in their keys. But anything recent does.
My 2001 Ranger Edge has an 80 bit transponder key. I bought truck used, got two transponder keys on ebay, took them to local Lincoln-Mercury dealership, and they wiped all three and reprogrammed all three to the truck (since I only got one from the used car dealership). So, my OEM 2001 Ranger Edge, has an 80 bit transponder key (
https://www.therangerstation.com/for...-i-buy.178783/ ). Maybe they didn't do this to the less expensive rangers?
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