Initially it was just the case that was destroyed by the original owner, easy swap, and then the microswitches fell of, so I was getting ready to resolder them back on when I crushed the entire fob circuit border in the cargo door. It's not in pieces but it's bent and multiple tracings are broken. Local electronics guy here in Africa looked at it but said it was beyond his scope to repair.

 

My local Land Rover mechanics here have a Lynx system with full access—are you telling me I can get a used Disco 2 fob and reprogram it to work with my Disco 2?

 

I'll do it and post back here when we succeed or fail.

 

Yes, although it's actually the body control module (BCM) that gets programmed to recognize the key.

Any used DII keyless handset you find there in East Africa should work. They came in two versions, we're told -- a 315 MHz version for North America and a 433 MHz version everywhere else.

 

I have this aftermarket new key fob, that I ordered from Walmart, though it wasn't actually shipped and sold by Walmart, anyways... It looks legit, the little red LED light lights up, I had a local locksmith cut me the key on it for $9.... So now I am trying to get SOMEBODY to even try to program it. Dealers told me to **** off, they're not going to even try to do it. So one indy mechanic said: "no, yes, no, may be, call us next week, we're not sure." Another one said "$168, but the computer is down, perhaps end of next week." I was pretty overwhelmed by the $168 to program a key... And yet another indy mechanic said flat out "no, can't do it." So it turns out to be quite a challenge. I am used to German cars mostly, and I have never heard of it being such a problem to program a key. That's what I got going on so far. If anybody knows anyone who can do it in the Washington, D.C., Maryland/N. Virginia area, please do let me know. Thanks.

 

Good news here from this Facebook poster:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40362835868...3D_fMAiM1f9Ly4

 

These look exactly like the key fob that I got for 20 bucks

 

I tried a bunch of those fobs from ebay (it's all the same design but from different sellers) and none of them worked. Then I got a used genuine fob and I could program it within a minute with the nanocom. Maybe I was just unlucky and got broken parts or they provided the wrong codes. Unlike the genuine fobs there is no code sticker on the chip and it is impossible to verify if you got the right tags.

 

I don’t know if the this is the same user from the failbook group who claimed he got those to work, but this is the link I got: https://www.ebay.com/itm/40362835868...mis&media=COPY

And if you don’t have a Nanocom, in my opinion, that and an Ultragauge are required purchases for proper D2 survival and both pay for themselves quite easily.

EDIT: I just verified that is the same user. From the discussion it sounds like the 315 mhz is the key? (No pun intended). Has anyone verified if these cheap ones will work? My latest D2 came with one of the other knock offs and I couldn’t program it with the Nanocom…