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#1 of 5 Smart Key Code by twometrebill May 09, 2009 (10:54 am)
The dealer lost the key code before delivery of our 2009 TCH. They claim they looked it up and sent us a 5 digit code. Since 5 digits is only good for 100,000 unique keys, I'm thinking they made a mistake.   I doubt that Toyota would reuse the same code for every 100,000 vehicles. Shades of the bad old days of US vehicles when GM and Ford only had 1,000 unique keys for their whole fleet.   Could someone check theirs and post the number of digits in yours?   Thanks, Bill Replies to this message: lzc (May 10, 2009 5:44 am) twometrebill (May 10, 2009 9:21 pm) lzc (May 11, 2009 4:53 am)
#2 of 5 Re: Smart Key Code [twometrebill] by lzc May 10, 2009 (5:44 am)
Replying to: twometrebill (May 09, 2009 10:54 am) 5 digits is it. Mine came on a ridiculously small metal tag. But I still have it. The dealer can look it up with your VIN number, right? I have mixed feelings about the Smart Key system. I've read horror stories of people who've lost or broken their keys on out-of-town trips on a weekend. What a pain, and expensive.   The odds of a random "hit" of 1 in 100,000 is, obviously, pretty small, even more so given that a minority of Toyota cars come with Smart Key. I once returned to my car with some purchases, inserted the (traditional) key to open the trunk, and then realized it wasn't my car! It was a nearly identical Toyota Camry parked two spaces from my car. It happens. Replies to this message: twometrebill (May 10, 2009 9:21 pm) lzc (May 11, 2009 4:53 am)
#3 of 5 Re: Smart Key Code [lzc] by twometrebill May 10, 2009 (9:21 pm)
Replying to: lzc (May 10, 2009 5:44 am) Thanks for checking your code for me.   Still I think that Toyota has been making some silly mistakes like this, the cost would probably have been the same to use a trillion separate codes as only 100,000. Other problems: only the driver is supposed to be comfortable, no lumbar support for the front passenger; short tracking the seat rails so that the smallest VW has more legroom than the giant Landcruiser and Sequoia, and we all could go on.   Thanks again, Bill Replies to this message: lzc (May 11, 2009 4:53 am)
#4 of 5 Re: Smart Key Code [twometrebill] by lzc May 11, 2009 (4:53 am)
Replying to: twometrebill (May 10, 2009 9:21 pm) I looked at my Honda key code: 4 digits, 1 letter, or 260,000 possibilities.   My only comfort recommendation for the Camry would be longer seat bottoms, for better thigh support for people with long legs. The Japanese have long neglected to include the extra comfort controls in the passenger seat.
#5 of 5 100,000 unique seems like a good number to me by moondogjim Aug 09, 2009 (8:27 am)
In 1988 I rented a 88 Camry from Hertz. Drove to my hotel spent the night and the next morning got up and headed out. Hopped in my "Camry" and drove off. Before I got out of the parking lot of the hotel, I noticed a rental agreement envelope on the pass.seat. I thought I had put mine in my brief case which was sitting beside me, I opened it and there it was. Opps, I had someone elses rental car and my key worked, surely their key would work in mine. Drove back and found my Camry and parked the other and took mine. At the time the rental place had 4 Camry's all new and three of them used the same key. I'll go with the 100,000 combinations, seems safe enough for me. Also, on the 100,000 codes, that doesn't rule out colors and that adds a even bigger uniques to the mix.

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