Spare Key

[2manyrocks]

Thank you Choffman41 for that link. I've been hunting a key for my YM226D for a while. It sure looks like my key. I had gotten a key from a yanmar dealer that didn't fit at all.

The JD dealer may not whether a particular Yanmar is gray or domestic. Might just not like anything not JD. You don't get repeat business by not helping customers.

Can anybody tell me how to get a cheap second key for my 2004 Mazda B3000 truck without having to pay the Mazda dealer $125 to program it plus buying the key?

 

[kthompson]

The problem is not the size of the sale, but that you have a gray market tractor, which is hated by most all legitimate tractor dealers, (no parts, no service).

I understand what you are saying but don't agree with the attitude.

I have a business and if you call us for a product we do not sell we do our best to help direct you to who does. Why, one it is right, two the guy I sent them to might do the same and ending up sending me business the next time and three, most people remember it. I have had people come back to me due to the way we helped them when they had given up. If they don't remember your helping them but they certain will remember you did not try.

 

[California]

Kthompson, you have a good heart.

My local Deere dealer is like the one SailorBob described. He had sold US Yanmars back in the day and was still running an 'Authorized Yanmar Parts' line in the Yellow Pages when I phoned asking about potential support before buying my first Yanmar - a US model. On the phone the general manager said he still had the Dealer-version Flat Rate Labor Hours and Shop manuals, and could provide service if I ever needed anything.

But when I stopped by in person to ask more questions I couldn't convince the service manager that my YM240 was in fact a legitimate US Yanmar. The idiot pretty much called me a liar, blustered and ranted about 'always' ordering parts that 'never' fit 'anything'. I simply couldn't get him to calm down and talk to me in a civil way.

I haven't been back. I've found it's simpler to order parts from 2000 miles away.

 

[bulldog7]

Guys, what I seem to hear you saying is that you feel the same way I do about being treated in a bad manner. I will never go back to a JD dealer and thanks to the quality of the Yanmar tractor you just don't need that much for them anyway. Thanks to this forum and the good people here many problems are solved with your advice and help.
Ken

 

[aczlan]

Can anybody tell me how to get a cheap second key for my 2004 Mazda B3000 truck without having to pay the Mazda dealer $125 to program it plus buying the key?

Second key? No, not if Mazda did like Ford (who owns them IIRC) and Chrystler did. However, if you have two or more working keys you can program more yourself (Directions for ford which are almost identical to the Chrystler ones), if you dont you have two keys you will have to go to a dealer. This is supposedly to keep a valet/thief from making a working copy of your key while they have your car and keys.

I found this out about my wifes 2004 Caravan after I lost my key chain... It was not good.

Aaron Z

 

[careyo63]

Kind of funny here is a good one I just had this pic.out for another form and then I was reading this. I'm not kidding you should have seen the lip go up when I told a local dealer and when he got a look at this.I was waiting to hear he doesn't sell or have any parts for it when he slammed a book shut. Must of had been having a bad day

 

[2manyrocks]

I only have the one Mazda key so I guess I am stuck with either having one key or paying the dealer a lot for a second key.

I should say that I have a "Fordized" Mazda because it appears to have more Ford influence than my earlier Mazda B2200 in my opinion.

 

[aczlan]

I only have the one Mazda key so I guess I am stuck with either having one key or paying the dealer a lot for a second key.

I should say that I have a "Fordized" Mazda because it appears to have more Ford influence than my earlier Mazda B2200 in my opinion.

Call around on keyprogramming prices, we have one dealer (20 mins away) that wanted $200 to program the key and another one (30-40 mins away) that wanted $120 to program the key for my wifes van.

And remember, having a dealer program a key is going to be cheaper than having your car towed to the stealership for them to cut and program two keys if you should ever lose the key that you have. I am planning on having the stealerhip program another key for my wifes van, then I will program another pair of keys myself (no reason not to when they are $10/each on ebay) to keep as spares. Then we will have 4 keys for her van. A great selling point if/when we end up selling the van.

Aaron Z

 

[2manyrocks]

Is there some way to take this system off the truck and not have these gizmo keys? Just looks like something that is going to fail eventually or cause some other problem.

 

[aczlan]

Is there some way to take this system off the truck and not have these gizmo keys? Just looks like something that is going to fail eventually or cause some other problem.

Sort of, I have heard that you can mount a working "smart" key under the dash (ie: just the plastic head with the electronics in it) and then use a ordinary "dumb" key to run the car, that way there is always the signal that it is looking for. However this is a third hand rumor, so YMMV.

Aaron Z