Hey everyone!
I bought two keys off ebay for $22 with Free shipping. They have the Toyota Logo with the Dot on the key. Keys arrived last night.
Today went to HD, Wal Mart and Lowes. No luck in getting them to cut the keys for me.
After work I went to the Toyota dealership on my way home and went to their Parts Department. When I explained to the guys what I needed, they were kind enough to cut the keys for me at no charge. They tested the keys in my door and ignition and they worked perfectly! Make sure you tell them you only need the keys cut, not programmed! They should be able to do it at no charge. I took my registration and drivers license to prove the vehicle was mine. They cut the key from the VIN. They didn't even need my original key.
I came home and emailed myself the instructions on how to program the keys and opened the email on my ipad. I followed the instructions below and after three minutes for both keys I have two replacement keys!
1. Take the new key and one master key that can start your 4runner(old key) into the 4Runner with you and close the driver's door.(immobilizer light should be blinking)
2. Insert old key, remove old key, Insert old key, remove old key,
Insert old key, remove old key, Insert old key, remove old key,
Insert old key (immobilizer light should be off from the first insertion)
3. open and close driver's door six times (immobilizer light should be off)
Step 2 and 3 need to be done in less than 35 seconds(pdf says 35 seconds)
4.remove the old key. (immobilizer light should come on(steady on, not blinking))
5. insert the new key(immobilizer light should be blinking)
Then just sit there and wait, after about one minute the blinking immobilizer light should go off and you're done.
Whole process need to be repeated for any additional keys, the just programmed key could be used as the "old key" for the additional keys.
If there are 5 master keys registered with the immobilizer, it won't accept any more(and I don't know how would it tell you this, so just do a erase if you can't get it to work after trying for a few times). You have to erase them using a similar method(bring in just an old key, insert+remove one more time and open+close one more time, after the 7th close of the driver's door the immobilizer light will stay lighted for one second, remove the old key quickly after that and all but that one you just removed are erased.)
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