Is your car key worth $2,400?; Lose the Master and You Buy A Whole New Security System

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 4, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

When Mary Elizabeth Schuppin lost the keys to her new Toyota Avalon, she didn't think much about it. After all, how hard could it be to get her local Toyota dealer to make a new set?

A lot harder than she ever would have believed. Unless she found her keys, the dealer told her, it would cost her $2,400 if she wanted to continue using the sophisticated security system that came with her $30,000 car.

"When they told me that I really started looking for my key," said the retired schoolteacher from Fairfax Station. The Avalon was equipped with Toyota's computer-operated "engine immobilizer ...

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