Get a spare car key made in Tenerife — before it’s a €200 problem.

Yes — it’s the cheapest insurance you’ll buy on a vehicle. A spare starts at €60 (transponder) or from €200 (smart key). The day you lose your last working key, you’re into an all-keys-lost job — from €200 with me at your car, or €500+ plus a tow at the dealer. Making the spare while you still have a working key is the whole point.

At Otypro in Tenerife, a spare car key is from €60 for a transponder key, from €120 for a remote or flip key, and from €200 for a push-to-start smart key,. The second key in the same visit is cheaper because the labour’s already paid for.

Yes, ideally a working one. With at least one working key, the job is quick: I program a fresh key directly to your vehicle so the car accepts it as an additional working key — that's what most spare jobs are, not a cloned copy of your old one. If you've lost the only key, that's a different job — see Lost All Keys — and it's priced separately (from €200).

About 30 to 40 minutes for most spare keys — transponder, flip, or smart — including programming, right at your car. Copying a plain mechanical key is 5 to 10 minutes. Smart keys can run longer because the vehicle's security check itself takes time — that's the car running its checks, not me running them.

Yes. I carry laser-cut (sidewinder) blanks and the machine to cut them. Most cars manufactured from around 2010 onwards use laser-cut keys. The cut is more precise than an edge-cut key — and it's also why a sketchy mall kiosk can't actually copy one.

Yes. The spare I cut and program matches your original's buttons — lock, unlock, panic, boot, and any extra functions your vehicle has. I match the fob to your exact year, make, model, and trim before I program it, so it works just like the one you already use.

Push-to-start cars use a proximity fob, and the spare is another fob. There’s almost always a hidden mechanical insert key inside the fob for manual door unlock — I cut that blade to match your locks, so your spare has it too. If all you want is a plain metal-blade key cut (no fob, no programming — for valet use, a glove-box backup, or trunk-only access), that’s just the blank plus cutting labour, not the full fob price.

Most customers do 1. If two drivers share the car, 2 makes sense. The second key is cheaper than the first because I'm already on-site — labour is the bulk of the cost, and that's already paid for. Tell me up front so I bring two blanks.

That's still a spare job, not all-keys-lost. With your working key as reference, I add a fresh spare directly to your vehicle's immobilizer — same price as a regular spare (from €60, depending on key type). The job to avoid is losing the last working key — that's when costs jump to AKL pricing. Making the spare now is the cheap insurance.

Same job, different words — a spare, a copy, a duplicate, or getting a car key cut all mean adding a second working key to your vehicle. For keys with a chip — transponder or smart key — the copy also has to be programmed to the car, which is why I do it on-site at your vehicle rather than at a kiosk.

That's an all-keys-lost job, not a spare — I cut and program a new key straight to your car using dealer-level access, then test it, from €200. If you still have one working key, making the spare instead is from €60 and skips the €200 bill entirely.

Yes — a spare before you leave means a lost key on the road is a quick fix, not a stranded dealer call in an unfamiliar town. Cut and programmed at your car from €60; book a day or two ahead for a same-day slot.

A second car key is the spare — a working key added while the original still works, from €60. It's the roughly from €60 insurance against the €200 bill the day the original goes missing.