maurinquina » I had issue with my 1999 V70 where I lost key. Nightmare began involving having car towed to dealer. 1st dealer had a serious attitude and wanted me to buy a new key from his parts department and wouldn’t use a new key I had which wasn’t programmed but I kept it to lock/unlock doors in emergency issues. Had to tow car to another dealer who did accept my key but couldn’t program it saying that it was defective. The next day. Day 2 without transportation I had to buy new key from them. Also, I had to get new fob programmed because when they program new keys remotes have to be programmed as well. After $687 later I still have only one working ignition key and 1 remote.
That was almost 3 years ago. Ever since I have read up on all the Volvo forums trying to find a viable solution. I always liked the remedy where you remove the chip from a working key and tape/crazy glue it near or inside the immobilizer ring.
After that just cut away on any key you can find and it should work even though I’ve been told that a unprogrammed chip will interfere with this mod so you have to remove the unprogrammed chip from the key. Here are pictures on how to do this. I have 2 keys as I mentioned before. One with a programmed chip and the other without or malfunctioned chip which the dealer couldn’t program. I removed both chips. 1st the defective chip key on which I cut a little too close to the chip and took off a corner but fortunately that DIDN’T matter and I did it correctly on the programmed key.
I think earlier Volvo’s have a glass capsule with the chip in it but mine had these squarish chips in it. They come out easily. Just make sure you cut into the side where the blue dot isn’t located. After cutting down the side of key towards the key blade you cut sideways widening the area to loosen the plastic around the chip and chip will just slide out by itself. This chip is more robust than the glass capsule version so a few hard cuts won’t damage it. Please study pictures carefully especially the cut going down. If you feel resistance DON”T force it. Reposition and try again.
Immobilizer Chip Extraction from Key – 1999 Volvo V70
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