Flip Key - Ford

How to use the Ford Flip Key meant for the Mk4 Mondeo on your Late Mk2/Mk3 Mondeo.

Items Needed

1 Ford Flip Key 1 Blank cut to your current key 1 replacement pats chip

Method

Separate remote part from folding part of key.

Split the plastic part of the key to pieces but you can drift out the pin without doing so. (If you half unfold the key you will see the blade retaining pin. This can be knocked out using a small drift.) That is how Ford fit the blade to the key in the first place.

Take your new Ford key (I got a non-pats key cut especially for this, it cost around £10 and I think it was a "Curtis" blank. A non-PATS torch key would also do - but obviously don't buy the Torch bit.

Once you have removed the pin the blade can be pulled out of the chrome part.

Take a junior hacksaw, and cut the plastic part of the key away to release the brass blade out of the new Ford key.

File the new blade to make the fittings match the Jag key. I had to file the edges where is fits into the diamond section. Make sure the blades are the same length, if not file the end that goes into the key body until they are the same length. Compare the two blades and file the groove that the retaining pin locates in onto the new blade.

Fit the new blade into the chrome section, and replace the retaining pin. If you have filed the groove in the correct place the blade will be a tight fit; if you weren't as precise, you could use some superglue.

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