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Are those original with colored crest? Pretty sure the replacements have colored crest with led light. I have one. But originals were a small incandescent light and a pewter colored crest. They use the same key insert bland in the head.
Color crest came in in about 2000, pewter before that, LED about 2010. Early lighted key heads were larger and squarer. The OP black key is original, the other 2 aftermarket
Are those original with colored crest? Pretty sure the replacements have colored crest with led light. I have one. But originals were a small incandescent light and a pewter colored crest. They use the same key insert bland in the head.
Color crest came in in about 2000, pewter before that, LED about 2010. Early lighted key heads were larger and squarer. The OP black key is original, the other 2 aftermarket
That's what I thought as well, my black one is orig. Here's a pic of my then new '09, with key in ignition. It had the crest but don't recall a light, so it's at least in '10 was introduced....
As this is an air cooled section, I thought you were talking about air cooled parts! The 997 keys never came with a light, they all stopped with the 993. Porsche changed the design in about 2010 to a LED in the head from a filament type bulb used from the 1970 to about 2009
So what keys do you have? Mine came w/ 3, but I think the black one is OEM......
Sorry for the sloppy writing and I covered the keys since I had a friend have his car stolen using a key that someone copied from a forum photo.
IIRC the 944 key was different I also had one for my 944 S2 that was an inverted version of the black key early style, so the round head might have been from a 914.
AFAIK the SC's forward and it could have been earlier as well had the black key similar to the one you posted. These also came with a red key that was a valet key that would only open the doors. I have a bunch of NOS black and red keys floating around someplace I never had cut. I believe at some point during the 3.2 G bodies they switched to the newer style key with either colored or silver crest and light as pictured. BTW all the blanks are the same and the metal key is a standard US lock or other company that sells blanks. The later keys had a detachable head from the metal part that could be cut and the head can be used on either the 928 or 911. Although the key blanks for the 928 were much more secure and had a different mechanism. I would assume the 968 received it as well. There are also small tops that can be purchased for spare keys to be hidden if you wanted as pictured on the far right. FYI the metal tab on the last key from the right was a tag code used to identify the key cut and was also supplied with new cars. I am sure there is more I forgot or am incorrect about but this is what i recall.
01-18-2020, 06:49 PM
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