We have finally bought a new Laguna keycard, which costed us 140 euros for both the new key and the reprogramming.
Three years after we bought the car (used), the keys started to have problems. One couldn't unlock and one couldn't lock. We tried to put the battery from one card to another but it didn't work. For a while, we locked the car manually, which involved getting out of car, leaving the back door open and leaning in and hitting the central locking button. Unlocking the car involved taking out a part on the handle and take out the key from the keycard. We were bearing with these for a while until one day, one of the keys couldn't start the car anymore. When push on the start button, a red round light flashes on the car screen.
We were afraid that the other key will follow suit and one day we would not be able to start the car entirely. We decided to pay the price: 140 euros just to get a new car key!
I would like to have another key as a backup but paying another 140 euros is just too much to bear. I decided to check on the internet, and here I found this site teaching people how to repair a Laguna key themselves:
http://west-penwith.org.uk/blog/archives/203
I haven't tried it yet as it involves mending one of the components. We don't have the tool to do it.
Another solution, a garage in UK repairs the key for 25 pounds plus postal cost:
http://www.keyrepair.co.uk/
I would like to find a garage that would repair it just for 25 euros, anyone knows any garage like this in France?
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