1998 Jaguar XJ
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1998 Jaguar XJ Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
Got a call from a guy near the Rice Avenue corridor in Oxnard. His 1998 XJ was sitting in the basement level of his building's parking garage and wouldn't start. The key turned, the dash lit up, but the engine just cranked and died. Classic immobilizer lockout behavior on the X308.
He had already called the dealer. They told him to get the car towed in. Problem was, his parking garage has those tight spiral ramps and a low ceiling on B2. No flatbed was getting down there. He spent half the morning trying to figure out the logistics before someone told him to call a mobile locksmith.
I drove into the garage and walked down with my tools. Pulled the key apart and confirmed it was running the original ID13 glass transponder in a Tibbe blank, six-cut FO21 profile. The chip was reading intermittently. Not dead, just weak signal. On these older Texas Instruments chips, that happens. I cut a new Tibbe key to code using my Condor, dropped in a fresh ID13 transponder, and cloned the working data over so the Nippon Denso security module would recognize it.
Tested it three times cold. Fired right up every time.
His car never left that parking spot. The whole thing took about 40 minutes, and he paid a fraction of what the dealer quoted for a tow plus key work plus diagnostic time.
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“Needed a spare car key made and chose EZ Car Keyz based on their reviews. The reviews were right. They gave me the best price, responded quickly to all my questions, came to my workplace, cut the keys on site, and finished fast.”
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“My Sprinter van key broke and I was stranded. Marco was very friendly and helped me get three new keys quickly. I will definitely be using them again.”
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