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So I contacted Honda Dealers UK to get a replacement key
Their response
Blank Key £86.46
Key Cutting £15
Key Coding £48
Total £149.46
So I bought 2 genuine Honda key blanks from Japan (35121-MGP-D01)
£45 for two blanks postage and VAT to UK was £24.00
Had local locksmith cut them (he did 2 for £20)
Bought a HISS programming cable from ebay (you can make it yourself but the parts were about the same price as ready made lead) £19.99
Total cost £109
!0 minutes to recode and there you have two new original Honda keys for £40 less than 1 new key from dealer :-)
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Our US friends won’t worry as their CBs weren’t fitted with HISS, but I’d be interested to know how you do the reprogramming.
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(09-03-2024, 10:04 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Our US friends won’t worry as their CBs weren’t fitted with HISS, but I’d be interested to know how you do the reprogramming.
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The cable is purely a 100 ohm resistor in the positive line with (for my bike) connected to a Sumitomo HM 090 MT - 2 Pin Connector. But as I mentioned, by the time i bought the clips, cable and plug etc it was easier and cheaper to buy it ready made :-) Same process for most Hondas with HISS the only difference is the type of connector used for the crank position sensor.
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Brilliant. Thanks very much, Davidjill.
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The only Honda that came to the US with HISS was the Rune. Missing keys/problems programming them was a big warranty headache and expense.
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(09-03-2024, 08:40 PM)Davidjill_imp Wrote: So I contacted Honda Dealers UK to get a replacement key
Their response
Blank Key £86.46
Key Cutting £15
Key Coding £48
Total £149.46
So I bought 2 genuine Honda key blanks from Japan (35121-MGP-D01)
£45 for two blanks postage and VAT to UK was £24.00
Had local locksmith cut them (he did 2 for £20)
Bought a HISS programming cable from ebay (you can make it yourself but the parts were about the same price as ready made lead) £19.99
Total cost £109
!0 minutes to recode and there you have two new original Honda keys for £40 less than 1 new key from dealer :-)
… and no charge for unpacking the keys..?
That was very kind of them.
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That is a very nice color of blue. They didn't sell blue in the US, as far as I can tell. Lucky you. I can't wait to see photos of it in the English countryside or villages.
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It's an odd thing to me, Nachodaddy, that North America — likely one of the bigger markets for the CB1100 — had no colour options. Even in the small Australian market, it came in red, black, white, and blue.
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