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    1 hour ago

    I so desperately want to expand our capabilities on doing car keys but my boss is allergic to spending money. It really seems like a no brainer when the dealerships change an arm and a leg we could easily beat their prices.

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      1 hour ago

      Assuming you’ve got a sidewinder cutter it’s worth researching GM’s onboard programming. You can do most vehicles older than 2023 without a programmer.

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        49 minutes ago

        Yeah we have a sidewinder cutter and a silca RW4 cloner so we can do on board programming and clone a decent amount of the transponder keys but I want my boss to get a programmer so we can actually do remotes and prox keys because we get people asking about them a lot.

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          38 minutes ago

          If you have a cutter and cloner theres almost no reason to not grab a SmartPro or Autel. It’d pay for itself in less than a year.

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            23 minutes ago

            Exactly that’s what I keep telling him but my boss doesn’t want to spend the money for whatever reason. I’ve thrown all the numbers at him showing him every customer we’ve turned away that we could have done if we had a smart pro but he still refuses to actually buy it. It’s just completely baffling to me tbh.