430 Replacement Key Options

I have recently tried what you are proposing with no luck. I have an original key (that doesn’t fit my car) and ordered a key blank - substituting the needed parts.

I then replaced the battery and then tried the programming procedure multiple times with no success. I would love for this to work and hope that I have just done something incorrectly.

I would be interested in hearing if you get it to work or in what others have to say.

 

Mine came with only one key and no code card. Ferrari actually charge you $500 to give you the code so you can buy and program another key....total cost around $1200!!

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I ordered a new key code card from the Ferrari dealer in Sweden, cost me less than $100 (I beleive it was $70).

 

I don't see why they should charge you at all but that seems like a bargain. Ferrari NA truly gouges!

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It was not an easy task, though.
I had to go to the dealer, prove owership with a copy of the registration and a copy of my passport (they said it was required by Ferrari in Italy).
The dealer told me that Ferrari in Italy sometimes also required a copy of a police report and that I needed to report to the Swedish police that keycard has been stolen (???!). When I told them that I never had the keycard and it probably was lost during a prevoius owership, not stolen, dealer actually advised me to file a false police report, "because Ferrari in Italy probably won't send you a new key card without a police report" (????!).
Naturally, I refused. They said "Ok, let's try with just the owership and passport copy, but we can't guarentee anything".
Really strange behaivor.
Waited 5 months, heard nothing. When checking, the dealer had forgot about the whole thing. Had to start over.
Took 3 weeks, then the keycard arrived, together with a new key that I had NOT ordered, I already have two keys, and they knows that.
That turned into a dicussion wether I had ordered a new key or not, instead of just letting it go.
He sighed and finally told me "if you say so, but that's not how I recall it".
Bad dealer experience.

 

I guess I'd rather pay the $500. Had to show proof of ownership and the dealer took care of the rest.

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I can’t recall where but someone here posted a process for syncing your keys. I followed it and “reprogrammed” my existing keys but could not get the new key to work. I didn’t have to take to the dealer.