Well then barring the graduate school telling me i cant, or my hopeful employer demanding my presence i will do what i can to partake in the Durham meet
depending on the programming method they use, yes its necessary. For whatever reason not all dealer techs or whoever goes out to your car with the HDS tablet get educated in the add key mode, so they go for the default wipe immobilizer and reprogram all keys. So if you forget one key and do...
lately the ebay stuff is pretty decently priced and you can find kits that have warranties and relay kits installed, i think the morimoto 3five kits the retrofit source sells are decent too but ive never used them
The eye is what a lot of people lack, technical skills can be learned by reading playing or classes. Ive never taken a formal photography class in my life, i prefer to just shoot and see what works.
I managed to find a local locksmith who actually had a generic HDS like system that could do Honda key programming, he happened to have a spare transponder like the one in a valet key he sold me and we programmed both the transponder and the remote.
Its very hit or miss if a 3rd party can cut...
I do, I used a separate transponder in my current key though, no soldering, I have something that looks more like the transponder from a valet key in my flip key
Some of the Honda keys have a separate transponder chip stuffed into the key. Where did you put your transponder in the key, I did some experimenting and found that it was very position sensitive, like it would work fine on one side of the rotating bit but not the other