90 TD5 Fob Keys - Can anyone help?

Hey Everyone!

Hope you're all doing well as haven't been on in a while!
Picking up my 90 TD5 this week and it looks like the fob(s) have been lost over the years.

It's a 2003 TD5 (03 plate) - and like my last '03 - pretty sure it should have a fob to unlock everything.

I'm based in Essex - but where would be the best place to start with getting at least one fob programmed?
I'm not bothered about a second one - always nice to have - but all dependent on price etc.

I haven't got a fob to start from regarding getting one programmed - so in theory it's like starting from scratch.
Can anyone help? Or from experience - point me in the direction of someone who might be able to get a new fob and program it?

Just one manual key right now - so ideally looking to get a second cut - but more importantly, the fob etc.

Based in Essex - and happy to drive wherever for a little bit of help! Thanks again everyone!

PS - done a bit of reading and see some videos of people using a nanocom to program keys - and it looks like you might not need the original key to program the new ones - as apparently it wipes the old keys from the system when you use it. Anyone got any experience of this?

Remote key Ltd.
Thought the vehicle read the fob to start it, unless you immobiliser has been immobilised.
The remote switches off the alarm and opens central b locking if you have such luxuries.

Anaconda said:

Remote key Ltd.
Thought the vehicle read the fob to start it, unless you immobiliser has been immobilised.
The remote switches off the alarm and opens central b locking if you have such luxuries.

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I read this on a forum in response to this -

''It has an active immobiliser and a passive immobiliser. The active immobiliser is activated by setting the alarm. The alarm is only set by pressing the button on the fob. Using the key to lock only locks the doors and does not set the alarm.

The passive immobiliser sets itself after a short period after you switch the vehicle off, whether it is locked or unlocked.

As I understand it, the status of the immobiliser is shown by the red light on the dashboard, at the bottom of the tacho. If the light is flashing the vehicle is immobilised.''

Does this mean that the current small black manual key that has been used for the last few years to lock/unlock the vehicle and start it etc - is no different to the fob in theory? Right now by just using the small manual key - as soon as the doors are locked manually, after a few moments of kicking the red light on the dash starts blinking? Does this mean the immobiliser and alarm are doing what they should? I just want to know how important it is to have the fob in terms of protecting the vehicle - and if it’s something I can wait and save up for - or is it really a priority as without using the fob and ONLY using the key etc like I am, it doesn’t set the alarm in the way that it should? Any thoughts?

Anyone have a nanocom and any experience of programming keys that could help? More than happy to compensate!

As far as I am aware there isn't a chip in the key for the vehicle to read.
It's my understanding the chip is in the fob.
Does your Land Rover even have an alarm, it would seem not.
A new fob isn't expensive and they send you a little dongle thingy to plug into the OBD socket to code the fob to the vehicle, you send the dongle back and get a partial refund.