It would help if I posted his number - 610.886.1000

ask for Justin and reference the "ERIC" key buy.

 

thanks for taking care of this Eric, I'll call Justin tomorrow and see if he can chave off another 50cents or so I'm glad you used Justin and he was able to hook us up

 

ordered it today - now what do we need to do to be able to get it to work?

 

pop open your current key, remove the guts (including the capsule) and metal cut key. Pop open the new key, remove the guts from it, and pop the guts from the old key in the new key, and it should plug and pray, I mean play.

 

thanks - i hope it's that easy but unfortunately nothing ever is that easy for me!

 

It is truly a simple process. Just don't forget the glass capsule and you are fine. Use a plastic blade or somesuch to open the keys to avoid scratches etc.

 

I just got my CGT key from Justin. Maybe the keys for '04 996s are different, but once I took the old and new keys apart, it seems that the metal "key" part does not come out in any easy way. Before I break my spare key into pieces, perhaps someone could help me (and anyone else with a similar problem). It is simple to take the circuit board and battery out for the swap, and I saw the small "capsule" for the ignition which is probably easy to pry out as well. Now for the rest....

 

if you are concerned, and dont' want to break it and/or spend $50, you can always just bring to the dealer.. they'll take care of it in a few minutes for you... that's what I did... figured might as well, I spend $50 on a dinner, might as well spend it on a key that's gonna be used all the time...

 

Bavarian, I sent you a mail on how to remove the key blade.

 

Bavarian OR Stef Scheepers -Can you send me that email as well?
Mike

 

hmmmm, Bavarian does not accept emails from this board per his profile. Can anybody forward this email on how to remove the key blade that stef originally wrote to Bavarian? The original will do as well

any help is greatly appreciated
thanks

 

So whats the verdict for those who got the cgt key to work?
Did you guys use the old existing electronics or the new electronics?
Any difference?

thanks

 

OK guys, here you go:
Once you open the key head, there is a black plastic slide (held in place by a little coil spring) that locks the key blade. Pull the slide back (difficult, so just pop it out) and pull the blade outwards out of the key head. Sometimes it sits tight, so just pull hard.
To put the blade in your new key head, just push it into the slot untill the plastic slide locks it in place.

 

Just ordered the last one at brandywine..

 

All done--it works like a charm...thanks to Stef and Toolpants on renntech. Once you get the blade out, it is very easy. The capsule is the size of a tictac and is not connected to anything. When I first closed everything up, the capsule rattled around, so I attached a tiny piece of tape to it, and now it's perfect. I tested all the functions. Thanks for the group buy.