No key transponder ?? (AUS MARKET)
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I thought the Aus market cars had a key transponder.
just went today to get an enquiry about getting spare key cut for cat.
guy did not have any blanks so can’t cut it for me, but he put the key on the machine to read the transponder and said it is not reading anything.
and he though jag must have not done them as it wasn’t yet legal requirement here.
the guy did know straight away as he knew the key would be a ford key and ford transponder.
so interesting.
Was it never in the Aus Market?
or did they bring it in later?
mine is early 95
just went today to get an enquiry about getting spare key cut for cat.
guy did not have any blanks so can’t cut it for me, but he put the key on the machine to read the transponder and said it is not reading anything.
and he though jag must have not done them as it wasn’t yet legal requirement here.
the guy did know straight away as he knew the key would be a ford key and ford transponder.
so interesting.
Was it never in the Aus Market?
or did they bring it in later?
mine is early 95
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so AUS market cars have no full alarm system as we supposedly had the immobilizer.
but if early production models had no immobilizer also that is a very interesting situation.
I thought the jags were supposed to be quite secure.
guess I might have to look into wiring in a hidden killswitch
maybe the power wire into the inertia switch could be a good wire to use to wire a killswitch
but if early production models had no immobilizer also that is a very interesting situation.
I thought the jags were supposed to be quite secure.
guess I might have to look into wiring in a hidden killswitch
maybe the power wire into the inertia switch could be a good wire to use to wire a killswitch
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I have a 1996 Australian delivered Sport and it does not have a key transponder.
I have a quick disconnect on my battery, so it is pretty secure against drive away theft.
Thieves would need to access the boot (trunk) which is pretty hard without the key.
It's a bit of a pain in the *** as it drops the radio memory and previous logged miles and fuel but not the main odometer.
I have been doing this for years on a late model XJ40 (battery in the boot) as well as a previous X300.
I have a quick disconnect on my battery, so it is pretty secure against drive away theft.
Thieves would need to access the boot (trunk) which is pretty hard without the key.
It's a bit of a pain in the *** as it drops the radio memory and previous logged miles and fuel but not the main odometer.
I have been doing this for years on a late model XJ40 (battery in the boot) as well as a previous X300.
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I have a 1996 Australian delivered Sport and it does not have a key transponder.
I have a quick disconnect on my battery, so it is pretty secure against drive away theft.
Thieves would need to access the boot (trunk) which is pretty hard without the key.
It's a bit of a pain in the *** as it drops the radio memory and previous logged miles and fuel but not the main odometer.
I have been doing this for years on a late model XJ40 (battery in the boot) as well as a previous X300.
I have a quick disconnect on my battery, so it is pretty secure against drive away theft.
Thieves would need to access the boot (trunk) which is pretty hard without the key.
It's a bit of a pain in the *** as it drops the radio memory and previous logged miles and fuel but not the main odometer.
I have been doing this for years on a late model XJ40 (battery in the boot) as well as a previous X300.
I have aftermarket android radio so that saves its own stuff regardless of battery or not so that is handy.
wonder what it was that some AUS delivered cars have the transponder and some don't.
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i had a killswitch installed in a 1974 mercedes i used to own and it was located where a sunroof switch would have been if the car had a sunroof. hidden in plain sight.
could use a rfid chip for basically an aftermarket transponder install or just a simple switch.
could look into a timer relay so that once power is cut it will auto activate after a few minutes
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