Coding Car Key – Partner Teepe

Hello,

Have a 63 plate Peugeot partner tepee. Have one very battered but working key that is held together with tape. Have another brand new key supplied after we had picked up the car and was taken to local Peugeot garage to have cut and coded to the car. It never worked but as it was organized and paid for by the place in the midlands we got the car, from it was difficult to push a resolution on and to be honest it went on the list of things to worry about in the future.

Now in the future any other options available to be other than going to Peugeot and paying for it to be matched up to the car? It physically opens the door locks, but doesn’t unlock remotely and has never started the engine.

Any alternative options out there for me?

Cheers

You could try contacting an independent Peugeot specialist or car key specialist .

They likely got the key for you but needed the car and both keys in the same place to register the new one and that is what was missed .

To add to that there may be a way to get the car to remember a forgotten key – we occasionally had to do that with a a key that was rarely used – sequence of ignition switches and key buttons

Timpsons copied mine, both the physical key and then the chip in it, works perfectly.

Similar age to yours, 13 plate Transit, so I’d expect similar tech in it.

I can vouch from experience that having one copied is much, much cheaper than getting a locksmith to open your and then make you a new one from scratch… Get yours copied while it still works.

Two things.

1. Remote key locking – probably needs a new battery, there’s a way of recoding the keys when the remote locking key battery has been changed in PSA cars, I’ve done it with mine a few times but you’ll have to YouTube it as I can’t remember.

2. If it remote unlocks but doesn’t start the car it will be the new/unused key doesn’t have a transponder in it
Options are;
A. Physically dig it out of the old key / position in new key.
B. Take to Timpsons or similar to see if the new key has a transponder in it/if yes then clone it.
C. Nuclear option – remap the engine ECU including additional options for immobiliser delete etc…….
D. Main dealer for new key @£300-400
E. Get a new shell for the key but pay attention to #A above.

(The Berlingo Uk forum is a good source of Pug Partner / Berlingo info)

Thanks for the rapid responses, inspired by them and seeing as work is particularly boring today i have:

Put new battery in and followed instructions online, no joy

A. Physically dig it out of the old key / position in new key – split both keys apart as i was doing the battery, unfortunatly it looks like the board in the new key is a slightly different shape to the old one
B. Take to Timpsons or similar to see if the new key has a transponder in it/if yes then clone it. – Presuming that the board that i have is a transponder, this is a good shout thanks, thinking cloning onto that should be possible even given mid-wales lack of facilities
C. Nuclear option – remap the engine ECU including additional options for immobiliser delete etc……. – lets hold off on this, spent many hours convincing a fuel pump controller to work with a mismatched ECU once
D. Main dealer for new key @£300-400 – last resort
E. Get a new shell for the key but pay attention to #A above. – actively looking into this currently looks liek there are a couple of options which is probably why my two are mismatached, again would never have occurred to me to try to replace just the shell so thanks

i re-shelled my key  recently for my Peugeot partner tepee.

quite easy – key blades held on by a tiny roll pin you need to punch out . and the board has the transponder built in.

the other key sounds like someone did a quarter arsed job.

any good mobile autolocksmith will be able to deal with this assuming you have 1 working key.- theres nothing special about the peugeot key protocol (ask them to do an iveco and youll be told where to go)

should be <100quid all in for a new key programmed.

I had a problem with my Mazda MX-5 in that my better half lost on of the two keys that we had for it.  After one occasion,  I go t round to doing something about it.  I found an independent car key service company who came round and provided me with a second key.  Not cheap, but a lot less than Mazda wanted and a lot, lot less than if I managed to loss the only key!

any good mobile autolocksmith will be able to deal with this assuming you have 1 working key.- theres nothing special about the peugeot key protocol

I thought you needed Lexia or whatever the new version was. You also need the right transponder and it’s a one shot deal as they can’t be programmed more than once. Certainly was the case in my bus which had a key with exactly the same issue, was cut for the locks but never programmed because presumably it was too much of a pain in the arse for the dealer.