Well last night my grandpa had to goto the hospital, I had my wifes car already over there and we were getting ready to leave, she headed over in my NX to stay with my grandma...

Anyways I remember her saying "I've got the spare" and me thinking "I have a spare?"

Long story short, that night I go to drive my car home and she hands me the "spare", the key to the '95 200sx in the garage! SAME dang cut on the key - almost exact (one tiny hump difference) but it operates the doors and ignition - thats FREAKY.


Chris

My neighbor now owns my 91 SE-R. His key fits my 92, not sure if mine fits his though.

C (:-)

As the barrel of the lock wears, it allows you to use keys with more variance in it :)

My dad's 10 year old van could fit almost any double edged key in it and it'd start!

My aunt had an '81 maxima wagon, and her son (my cousin, duh) had an '85 200SX. Strangely enough, the same key worked everything in both cars. Hehe!

My friends camry key opens and starts about half of the camrys we have tried it on

They were talking about something like this over at the nissanforums. Pretty shitty isn't it? I guess that's where car alarms come in nice. By the way, JC Whitney has alarms on sale right now pretty cheap. Valiant alarms, I've used them before and they're the best bang for the buck alarm I've seen. I'll post teh catalog number and offer code if anyone wants it. I'm getting a keyless entry system for $40 for my wife's grand am since her car came with no remotes for the OEM keyless entry and it'll cost $120 to get it reprogrammed and to get a transmitter. I'm going to get an alarm for the SE-R as well.

What kinda car does your wife have? If its a 90's vintage nissan, it takes 5 sec. to reprogram a new remote, and around 30 bucks to get a transmitter off of eBay...

Thanks Chris. No, it's a '97 Grand Am GT. I checked with the guys over at the grandam forums and I pretty much have to rely on the $tealership to reset the module and if I can't find a used transmitter or two then I'd have to get it from them as well. I'm sure there's a way to reprogram the thing, but the GA community doesn't appear to know how, which really amazes me.

This phenomenon got me out of a bind once. My key got locked in the car (on purpose) and my spare in a magnetic box had fallen off at some point (NOT on purpose).
My sister then the owner of the original family SE-R (mom’s 94) drove me over so i could ponder the situation in the daylight. Just for shits&giggles tried her key. Popped the lock no problem. Didn’t werk the other way ***.
My key/tumblers are so worn now that i can just pull the key out of the ignition w/ the car running. :eek:
Once i was given a key to some OLDs that i was to retrieve something from, got outside & got into the wrong car. The right car was two more spots down the street. :rolleyes: