2000 X5 won't start? Please help, I need to go to work!

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Originally Posted by Skyline

There's an article in this months Roundel about how BMW has a temporary exemption from legislation requiring them to allow registered locksmiths to be able to make keys 24/7. Legislation to make this exemption permanent just failed in CA. So it looks like very soon, BMW may have to start allowing locksmiths to make keys. So owners don't get stranded for days when traveling.

Leave it to the "gubment" to take a desireable BMW designed security feature and render it useless. Once the "registered locksmiths" are able to make keys the next step is the criminals can do exactly the same.

How about owners putting the valet key is a magnetic case and securing the key underneath, Bell makes a watertight/rare earth magnetic case that I use for exactly that. On long trips with the fiancee I ensure she is carrying the 3rd key in her purse.

Owners need to focus on the "ounce of prevention" so the laws don't ram a "pound of cure" down our throat that will only allow criminals easy access to ALL our keys. You CANNOT mandate VINs that are visible (1960s law in the USA) and then take the chipped key data away from BMW exclusively!

The BMW database connecting VINs to key chip RF data should remain the exclusive domain of BMW. Allowing locksmiths acess to this data will result in a drastic increase in stolen BMWs!!!!