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Car Key Guides — Straight Answers, No Sales Pitch

Fifteen years of the same questions, answered properly: what things cost, what to do when it goes wrong, and when you genuinely don’t need to pay anyone. Written by Jude Green, who does the jobs.

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Latest guides

17 Aug 2026 · 5 min readHow Much Is a Replacement Car Key in the UK?Between £70 and £550 — the honest breakdown by key type, why they cost what they do, and how to avoid the top of the range.17 Aug 2026 · 6 min readKeyless Car Theft: How Relay Attacks Work & How to Stop ThemSixty seconds, no noise, nothing broken. How relay theft actually works — and the five cheap habits that beat it.Guide · 4 min readLost Your Car Keys? What To Do NextThe calm UK guide: search once properly, ignore the “tow it to the dealer” myth, and know the cost before anyone travels.Guide · 4 min readCar Key Battery Replacement (and When It Isn’t the Battery)Change it yourself for £2 in two minutes — plus how to tell when the battery isn’t actually the problem.

From the Van — weekly notes

Short, true dispatches from Jude’s week on the road — the jobs, the towns, the odd surprises. Updated most weeks.

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