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With jigglers it seems to be all about probability. IIRC they only worked for american cars (and even then it might have been only older models).

Bumping OTOH seems pretty reliable. Just that I'm afraid to try it on my front door for fear of ruining the lock.

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I've heard that about auto jigglers only working on older model cars. The set I have advertises that they work on both foreign and domestic. I think my camry is a 2002. Anything post 2000 is a dicey proposition. And obviously, they won't work on cars that have the computer chip embedded in the key. I have no idea how you'd pick one of those.

There was a woman on Click & Clack last weekend who was looking at a $2000 key replacement from Saab for her key with an embedded chip.

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