Not Vauxhall I know, but I was very pleasantly surprised recently that I could get a new chipped key for my BMW from a main dealer for only £30.. the ones with remotes and alarm buttons on would have been a lot more, but mine sounds more similar to your key to me.
This is the place opposite the junction onto Tom Benson Way?
Just to back up this - they DID cut a key, match-up the "chip" to my
2001 VX (Omega). They didn't have in stock the R/C fob part, but once I got one of these from Perrys, they matched-up that to the car as well. They've got the kit and are pretty reasonable.
There's a "back-street" (Lowther Street?) that the shop is adjacent to, reached from Robuck St, then 1st-right onto Stock's Road (all the "back-streets" that used to lead onto Tulketh Brow are bollarded, access from Stocks-road only. That's a good place to park up to let the lads in the shop get good access to your car with their kit. (not sure if they needed to, on mine, for the immobiliser chip, or the R/C, but either way they spent a good 5 minutes to get everything synched up)
Yep, that's the one. They couldn't do mine (a Nissan Maxima QX - had to be main dealer) but I've heard good things about them so that's why I said it'd be worth a try there.
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