Have decided I’d like an activity key after a recent scare of my key falling out of my shorts while trail running.

I've got a 2020 110 X (USA). I have 3 keys currently 'coded' and working with my Defender that I'd like to keep (long story but one was lost, then found, and in meantime I'd ordered and waited 4 mos for a new key + shank).

Anyone know how many 'keys' a 2020 can take -- will it do 4 including activity key? My thought was to order an Activity key to my VIN. Euroactive seems to be able to do this and send it to you coded to my VIN. (which was a bit of a surprise), for a bit less than $600. But I want to make sure my other 3 remain functional of course.

 

I can't answer your question about 4 keys but it seems to me that if you want to save a few shekels why not just consider the 3rd key your "disposable" one. You've already paid whatever for it, surely you don't actually need 3 of them, and so you can just use one of them as the sacrificial lamb; if it falls out of your pocket on a run and gets lost or falls in the river or whatever, then you shrug and order an AK. That could be 3 years from now or it could be never. You might never have to spend $600, but worst case you just have to spend the same amount you would be spending for an AK now, all so that your 3rd key can sit at home in a drawer since you don't actually need it and it was in fact ordered by accident when you only thought you needed it.

Heck, you can even get a rubber NATO-style watch strap and hot-glue it to the spare key and have your own AK. It couldn't possibly be any uglier than the actual Activity Key. I'd gladly sell you mine for $400 if we could be sure it could be programmed to your truck.

 

Hmm interesting... so you aren't a fan of the activity key then. Reviews seem to be polarizing ie ranging from "I've not used my actual key since my activity key came in" to "it's the ugliest thing ever and horrible on my wrist".

Perhaps I'll sit it out and just keep using my key. I think you've just talked me into that.

I don't do watersports really so... no need for the water part of the activity key benefit.

 

Whether you have 3 or 300 keys if you're carrying one and lose it on the trail you're out of luck. I personally like the idea of an activity key, makes perfect sense if you're active and could lose it. Get it and if one key needs to be removed remove one of the other 3. Admittedly I don't know if any can be removed though or if having too many is an issue.

 

Agreed. Which is why I recommended he glue it to a rubber watch strap, or put a velcro strap through a round key ring and strap it to a belt-loop or around your wrist or something like that. I ordered the AK with my truck for $200 -- it didn't arrive till six months later (maybe longer). The dealer programmed it and I tested it and it has sat on the charger for a year now. Yeah, I'm a watch guy so I actually care what the thing on my wrist looks like. And if I did a water sport that I had to drive to, the AK would solve that problem and I'd use it. That is why I got it, thinking it's cheap enough at 200 bucks and if I ever get an inflatable paddleboard I could carry in the Defender I'd want the AK for that. But as it is I only use real paddleboards and carry them in my old pickup, whose mechanical key I literally either throw under the mat or stick in a velcro pocket of my board shorts, so I have no other need for the AK. Sounds like Nashvegas doesn't either.