Anyone program a used fob sks key gen 2 before? Help!!

If you do find a cable that works let me know. I can’t program new TPMS sensors with mine and the company I bought it from in China is no help.

 

FYI
Have Disassemble / Reassemble Gen2 Key Fob …..The Key Fob shell can be purchased for cheap on ebay or amazon....
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Other wise a reasonable locksmith would be my personal path

 

Basically when I ran the diagnostic program on Techstream it showed 2 pins not working. The people said that’s normal for the cheap VCI cable I bought. I guess those are the pins that program things?

 

I don’t know if mine could even bleed brakes. I don’t remember seeing that command anywhere.

 

Did you get that VXDIAG yet?

 

I seriously doubt someone in San Francisco solders that board. They probably just put it together with parts from China, or South Korea.

Do the people bringing up the Tactrix work on Toyota’s? Looks like it’s mostly for Subaru and Mitsubishi. 2 brands I would never buy.

 

One could buy a VXDIAG then return it because it doesn’t work for you. Even if it does.

 

I purchased a (Mini VCI Diagnostic Tool Cable Scanner for Toyota Lexus TIS Techstream V13.00.22) from ebay from user 'informatik2014' and was able to program a new (used but virgin) SKS keyfob for my 2010 HiHy last year.

Hare Krishna!

 

I'm the one who posted the review of the Tactrix. I've been satisfied with mine.

They are plagued by counterfeits just like everybody else in the space. The counterfeits are certainly made offshore.

The real ones might be too, for all I know ... after all, Apple is another US company that manufactures offshore.

Still, the reason I would buy a real Tactrix (and not a counterfeit one) is that the company that designs and programs and supports it is still alive, and I want to support that. The Mini VCIs you can buy are all counterfeits, because the counterfeiters succeeded in driving the original company that made it right out of the market, AFAIK. There's no R&D or support happening there, just copying of somebody else's actual work.

Of course the counterfeit Mini VCIs all say "XHorse Mini VCI" and the counterfeit Openports all say "Tactrix Openport" just like the real ones.

Disclosure: I do have a counterfeit Mini VCI, from before I bought the (real) Openport. I haven't noticed any problem using the MVCI to register fobs in Gen 3 or Gen 2.

Another thing to think about: As far as I know, both Gen 3 and Gen 2 fobs remember the first vehicle they are registered to, which means a used fob can't be bought and then simply registered to another car. The fob has to be "re-virginized" first. There are plenty of sellers on ebay offering revirginized Gen 3 fobs (or a service to revirginize one you send them). There aren't, for Gen 2 fobs, for some reason. I did ask one such provider about revirginizing a Gen 2 fob and their answer was they thought they could do it and would be willing to try if I sent them the circuit board out of one. I haven't tried that yet. It's not quite as straightforward, given that Gen 3 fobs just snap open but the Gen 2 cases are glued. If they succeed at revirginizing the board, I'll probably have to get a snap-together aftermarket case to reassemble it.

 

I have heard that some of the mini VCI’s can program keys and TPMS sensors. The one I own cannot. I know when I go to the Techstream diagnostic it shows 2 pins not working. I would guess one of the pins does keys and TPMS