Comment by m463

I needed a ford key, but only had a single key.

I bought a kit off of amazon "simple key" that included a programmer and a key with rfid chip. I think about $80.

You plugged the standalone dongle in the OBD2 port, did a procedure and it would take a few minutes and you would get an "original" key.

(The programmer said it was then locked to that VIN)

They key blank provided needed to get cut (did it at home depot).

I could then get additional rfid blanks for $7 and cut and program them.

Once you had two original keys, you could do the "DIY programming" method to make keys 3 and up.

The DIY method was something like "insert key 1, wait 3 seconds, remove, insert key 2 wait 3 seconds remove, insert new key, wait for something, remove" and you would get key 3, 4 ...

There were similar but separate ford procedures for programming the buttons on fobs to lock/unlock doors, etc