lock&quay Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 If your competition is charging £35-40 then you have to follow suit otherwise you won't get any work at all. We seem to have a lot of Joiners/UPVC guys who are all becoming locksmiths locally and that is why i don't even bother with much call out work anymore. Someone quoted £30.00 last week to change 2 euro cylinders on the same property it's not even worth getting in my van for that. I have the same , but I still charge £60 , for me it's showing you are more professional than the guys down the road & giving the customer confidence in your product & service . repodave and Autotechnix 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgeback Posted June 15, 2016 Report Share Posted June 15, 2016 We charge £60 to clone anything other than ID33, them they can have at £30. VW charge £130 for a standard transponder key non-remote. So why do the key for £30-40? I know some will have to compete with lower prices due to the competition in your area, but I still don't understand people or business's that don't want to make money? By this I am not saying "YOU" personally but maybe your competition thats driving the price down in your area for you. I charge more as I'm mobile. A few customers who do the ring-around tell me I'm expensive and that they have had cheaper quotes. I tell them politely I don't match cheaper prices, and that they are welcome to go down the cheaper route, but also ask if they have checked out these companies, explaining there is a lot of counterfeit equipment that can damage their cars (not cloning equipment) and if it goes pear-shaped that's the last you'll see of them, and that they will be left to pick up the pieces. Surprisingly this explanation wins over a few who were going to do down the cheaper route Autotechnix and silverfern 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted June 16, 2016 Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 Got my mbox installed yesterday. So do I have to be wary of volvo's then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 16, 2016 Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 Looks like S80 might be a problem but i have done 2 older s60 without issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Just spotted this from Silca marketing dept so be warned. Brief Interruption to the Silca ID48 Cloning ServiceIn order to allow work to improve the ID48 cloning service given to our customers, we need to suspend ID48 cloning on Thursday 23 June, from 20.00 to 24.00 CET, and on Sunday 26 June. We apologize if this causes any inconvenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDTL Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 With these problems it might be worth waiting for the new TPX8 reviews to come thou ? Or has anyone got one already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simong Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Been told that zed full are working on it but is not finished yet , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 The reason for the drop in service is to bring another server online hoping to cut the time for decoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffin_dodger Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 Day 1 of using my new M-Box VW Golf 5 (09)- 16 minutes VW Fox (11) - 5 minutes VW Beetle (00) - Failed to sniff ignition, didn't matter where I placed it, never got any LED's to light up, must have cycled ignition 50 times over 2 attempts, anyone else had any similar issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 16 minutes & a fail! and you lot sniggered at Keyline at the start! still at least the industry is bringing key cutting back to the counter, instead of us all having to turn things away. k4mrc, Carlito and Lock Stock 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 Silca have there own server in the factory, they are just putting a second one in place (i heard they are over 600,000 each but not sure if that was euro's or pounds). The Server is even split into 2 parts within the factory in case of accidents. Others out source the server they are using which is why the chips will always cost more in the long run. The time should drop after the new server is up and running after the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 16 minutes & a fail! and you lot sniggered at Keyline at the start! still at least the industry is bringing key cutting back to the counter, instead of us all having to turn things away. It failed at the start Lee, not after 16 minutes. That was a wait time for the Golf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Power Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 @coffin_dodger On some VW Beetle is hard to get 3 different sniffing data because the immobilizer tends to transmit always the same packet for many ignition ON. The effect in this case is that at the 1st attempt the LED of the SNOOP blinks to indicate that the 1st data packet have been received and stored, on the followings attempts the LED lights UP solid to indicate that the SNOOP is receiving always the same data.A trick in this case is to:- Switch ignition ON to collect the 1st packet (1st LED blinking), then swithch off and remove the key- Wait 5 seconds- Put the key in the ignition, and do 15/20 cycles of switch ON/OFF quite rapidly (1/2 second ON, 1/2 second OFF) paying attention to the SNOOP leds (at a certain point the 2nd led starts blinking)- when you get the second LED blinking, stop to swith ON/OFF cycling and remove the key- Wait 5 seconds- Put the key in the ignition again and repeat the above procedure to obtain the 3rd data packet. If you are not able to SNOOP at all (also the 1st packet) placing the SNOOP antennas in different positions but on all other cars the SNOOP works fine it could be that there's some issues on this specific car that does not allow the SNOOP to collect data. - - - - - - @grahamparker I dont know who told to you some details about our cloud system, some info are correct (we have the servers in house and splitted) and some other not The only thing I can say is that starting from today's midnight to the weekend (when all the upgrade will be online) the queue waiting times will be significantly reduced. Lock Stock and Autotechnix 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 @grahamparker I dont know who told to you some details about our cloud system, some info are correct (we have the servers in house and splitted) and some other not I know a lot of people in this industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellsy9 Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 I am unable to log on to the silca registration page. When i click on the registration box I am getting a message saying "Can't reach this page". I have also tried typing the address: https:\\www.silcawebsw.com into my browser and i still get the same message. Any ideas folks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellsy9 Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 Got it now. Don't know what was wrong there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lock Stock Posted June 23, 2016 Report Share Posted June 23, 2016 We got our two M-boxes today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NXPT Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 After updating Server Silca I can clone ID48 key in a few minutes.M-snoop is a winning tool it avoid wrong sniffing operation and Cutting key before cloningT48 (chip) it is cheaper and smaller that the electronic keys.even though the operation flow has too many steps put and take away transponder and original key that I don't understand i'm satisfied of product. https://postimg.org/image/ocap8d0s1/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damen.rudi Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 I told our representative about the Beetle problem. The solution should be to wait about 30 seconds between every handling and to pull the key completely out. Never tried it but its worth trying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 30, 2016 Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 ID48 chips going up 20% tomorrow, glad i bought 50 last week. Get some ordered if you can although Aldridges are now out of stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Am92 Posted June 30, 2016 Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 ID48 chips going up 20% tomorrow, glad i bought 50 last week. Get some ordered if you can although Aldridges are now out of stock. I bet this brexit fiasco is going to cost us all quite a bit over the coming months/years. Lets face it,the majority of the stock we use is imported,whether from Europe or the far east. The fall in value of the pound against the Dollar/Euro will push the price of everything up thus leading to inflation etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamparker Posted June 30, 2016 Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 Price was going up before the vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapidlocks Posted June 30, 2016 Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 glad i got 30 more in and on the summer discount code so 10% off original price too pre brexit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repodave Posted June 30, 2016 Report Share Posted June 30, 2016 I like the fact chips are increasing in price ,also its good to have majority price increases ,there is too much of a tendency to discount everything in this trade and not make a good healthy investment profit, glad silca are profiting realistically and reaping back some investment so they can reinvest, about time most others raised prices until the customers pips squeak, id48 was mainly obd before ,MAKE SOME MONEY PEOPLE! good luck. gavin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted July 1, 2016 Report Share Posted July 1, 2016 I like the fact chips are increasing in price ,also its good to have majority price increases ,there is too much of a tendency to discount everything in this trade and not make a good healthy investment profit, glad silca are profiting realistically and reaping back some investment so they can reinvest, about time most others raised prices until the customers pips squeak, id48 was mainly obd before ,MAKE SOME MONEY PEOPLE! good luck. Until the bloke down the road starts knocking them out at £20 and kills the market!!! Lock Stock and simong 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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