Nissan qashqai lockdown

[Bennettg1]

hi all , help & info needed if poss.
we took our 14plate Nissan qashqai to a local Nissan garage to have 2 keys re- programmed along with the vechile as we lost a set of keys & didn't want the car pinched ..
we bought a second hand key & took it along with the spare key to the garage for them to do the job but they claim the second hand key was fake & it's put the car in complete shut down .
they want about £800 to fix it , I no the other key was OK .
can any help provide any info on this subject ..
thanks

 

[Mottie]

Could be true. Dunno about Nissans but when I owned Land Rovers, plenty of people got caught out buying secondhand keys thinking they could be reprogrammed. They couldn’t, and you had to buy fresh, unused ones. Try phoning up a locksmith that specialises in programming keys for a quote do do the same thing (reprogram an existing original key and a secondhand one) and they’ll tell you whether it can be done or not.

 

[Belle427]

There are some good locksmiths about so id ask their advice, sounds like nonsense to me but you never know.
There is an interesting one i watch that pops up on Facebook and its amazing what they can do.

 

[securespark]

It sounds to me like they are taking the p155. Are you telling me the specialists (the Nissan dealer) didn't know the difference between a real Nissan part and a knock off one?

I'd complain that you took the car to them expecting a certain level of expertise and they failed you.

They should have known it was a bad key and not attempted the key programming process if it would shut the car down and cause further expense.