rev up your engines
today i'm going to show you how i can
use your phone to make a car key now if
you've watched my previous videos i
showed how a mechanic like myself can
reprogram a key to work in your theft
prevention car
but you need a very expensive machine to
do it now there's a company out there
that lets you do it yourself all you
need is a cell phone you take a picture
of the front and back of your key and
then you send them that picture called
tom's key company and as usual this
isn't a paid ad they contacted me and
said hey make me keys through my cars
i'll take the pictures if it works hey
i'll show the world what's available out
there if it doesn't work be forward i'll
say it's a piece of junk but as you're
going to find out this works pretty good
all you need is a key you got to have a
key because i got to make a copy if you
take a picture of the front and the back
using your phone then you just email
those two pictures to tom's keys and
then in the mail they send you the
remote the key that's caught and this
cool little machine which you do need
they caught this key using my old key
let's see if it'll turn the ignition
over it works now it won't start the car
because it has to be programmed to work
in your car now like i say i'm a
mechanic i got that equipment but it
costs a lot of money so what tom's key
company does is
they send you their little machine that
programs it then simply give them back
the machine now you do have to give them
a deposit on your credit card you get
your money back from them they're honest
people why buy expensive equipment when
you can just borrow theirs but then you
might say well then they can come and
steal my car no they can't because the
key that they send you all it'll do is
turn the key it won't start the car in
order to program this to start your car
you do need a good known key and here's
how you do it you get the cable they
give you and then plug it in the obd
port in here and don't worry about
having to figure this out yourself
because as you can see tom's key company
gives you the entire directions there's
even stuff on the back so you can do it
yourself and as you'll see as i go
through the process you have to have a
known good key if you don't have a known
good key it wouldn't do any good as the
tom guys decided hey we got keys to
scotty's car let's steal it right they
can't because you need a known good key
in order to start the process or the
computer won't accept it you get in the
car make sure all the doors are shut and
everything then you get your good key
and put it in the ignition then with
tom's key programmer you flip it to
key we'll turn it up so you can see it
better you switch it to the key position
and you turn the key to the on position
so it's on but not running then within
15 seconds you plug the programmer into
the car then when your red security
light stays on solid remove the key
this is your good key the one that works
get the key that tom sent you and stick
it in don't turn it stick it in then you
wait for the red security light in your
car to stop blinking it might take 90
seconds sometimes it takes a couple
minutes but once it stops blinking then
you take the key out with the key
removed then you open the door and
unplug the obd cable and now tom says
it'll start the car well let's see if
tom's full of crap or not here we go and
voila starts the car now tom also sent
me a remote and you can program the
remote too but my original key has the
toyota original remote even though it's
2007. as you can see
it still works so i'm not going to
reprogram that maybe one day i will if
this one breaks but hey it's been
working since 07 i only had to change
the batteries once and as it says on as
remote just send it back to tom and they
give you your deposit back pretty cool
now personally i find this rather
amazing to take a picture of the key
that guys can make it and check it out
look at this key bright i'm in the sun
i'm hiding in the garage with my john
deere here but it's one of those grooved
keys it's got the laser cut inside this
one fits my wife's lexus i cut this from
my wife's lexus programmed it starts her
car up too unfortunately her car
presently is in tennessee and i'm in
rhode island so i can't show you but
believe me it starts her car
and she's really happy because for years
i grabbed the old piece of key with my
hand and a keychain and i had a remote
next to it and i stick them close and
turn it now i can actually start it like
a regular car
instead of having to have all those
pieces and since they sent me a demo to
try out i didn't have to buy anything
but let's say you got one of these
keyless remotes well they have a fancier
one they can send you to program that
you put on a deposit and they give you
your money back so you can do some cars
that have the keyless remote this is
what programs the key and you know what
it is it does immobilizers but check out
a little sign here x tool so he's
loaning you a miniature x tool
hilariously enough that's the same
computer that i use to program keys in
my video chinese company called xtool
they make pretty good tools but that
particular tool is about 700 bucks you
put a deposit on this you get your money
back deposit isn't 700 i don't know 120
bucks or something you just mail this
back to them as it says here you get
your deposit back but do follow what it
says remember to shut it off when you're
done actually if i got to the other day
so power off or you got to keep pushing
it that's why i didn't push it enough
times it was bright when i did it now
this particular keyless ignition is for
a nissan and you need this fancy little
nissan device plugged in the obd port
and again they just loan this to you and
you give it back to them making your car
keys using your smartphone taking
pictures of it it's relatively new thing
they can't do everything yet you can
look on their website but if you want
i'll take a picture you can freeze my
video and see whether they do yours or
not here on the back of my john deere
here we go here's some of the cars that
they do like i say you can freeze it and
there's some more they're coming may
2022 or you can just go to tom's key
company see what they got i got to say i
was amazed i was all ready to make fun
of these guys saying hey these guys say
they can make you a key for your car by
taking a picture of it and then they
mail it to you and i can say oh what a
loan of baloney no it actually works
it's speaking of keys but john deere's
been sitting all winter let's see if the
thing will start it does nothing
well no wonder look it was built in
greenville tennessee and these tomskis
are cut in the united states you're not
going overseas i gotta say i was
pleasantly surprised that i don't have
to go get ripped off
at some dealership or a mechanic they
have keys made and so this is very
complex it's gonna cost a lot of time
and money blah blah blah blah when guys
can take a picture of it with their own
phone and then follow the directions
yeah you got to follow them to the t if
you make one mistake you got to start
all over again but hey it's not that
hard to do and especially if you have an
immobilizer key where it has a key that
has to be caught but it also has to be
programmed and of course
the keyless remotes i don't have a key
so
you don't have to worry about it unlike
this nissan keyless remote because of
course if you push it it does have a key
where you pop out the little push button
and then you can stick this but you will
have to have your old key and have this
caught i'll cut that too if you want you
want to send that in to make the picture
have them cut it hey i got to say pretty
interesting idea these guys came up with
and remember i'm back here in rhode
island i'll be here till the end of june
so anybody around here wants to come on
by they got problems they want to
analyze cars they want me to check out
for them and you can come visit
beautiful rhode island a little bit
chilly now but what the heck the sun's
out and it's not snowing
and here's some bonus questions and
answers simon 1982 says scotty in your
opinion would you buy a honda civic 1.0
turbo cvt well i would honda makes good
vehicles but one liter is a tiny engine
you turbo charge a tiny engine you'll
get more power yes but at what cost the
life span of the engine they won't
they're just too small they're going to
wear out faster that was the whole thing
about the older hondas i see them with
three four five hundred thousand miles
on it but they're normally aspirated no
turbo no supercharger no gdi injection
just a normal old-fashioned car that has
fuel injection not the gasoline direct
injection not turbocharging and not cvt
transmissions i would not i would not
that's too small of an engine now if
you're the type of person that drives
like a turtle and you're driving in town
all the time and not taking long trips
at high speeds maybe it'll last long
time if you don't beat it but generally
you got that little engine so you want
to go you step on the gas and the turbo
starts ramming air into it because you
want to drive as fast as it can the
engine revs up higher and it will just
wear out faster and a one liter engine
it's a tiny little engine i've had
motorcycles with bigger engines than
that and it is driving a whole car and
yes there's a lot of technology in it
and yes it can work from square one but
what's it gonna be like with 150 200 000
miles on it you got an electric car not
that great for towing stuff well there's
a youtuber now who is building a diesel
dooley on a tesla model 3 so he can tow
15 000 pounds calling his diesel-powered
dually the model d his name is rich
benoit he bought a wrecked model 3 smart
he didn't probably pay much money for it
he's put in a 4bt diesel coming engine
in a manual transmission a stock 4bt
cummins only puts out 150 horsepower
puts out 265 pound-feet of torque so
it's got a lot of torque but nothing
much horsepower so this guy says you can
put bigger heads larger fuel pump but of
course he can't put that stuff in models
three a stock model three so basically
he's using the body of the model three
he's gonna get a truck frame from a
chevy square body pickup truck with dual
wheels and says he'll probably tell
about fifteen thousand pounds be a funny
thing somebody sees a tesla with a
diesel engine smoke coming out of the
bag and i said it's probably going to
take him a year to do it so he's taking
his time but pretty funny he got driving
around in a diesel tesla so he can tow
stuff right americans they got a lot of
time on their hands and things to do
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