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Post by Saraphee »

My third and last query today. I have recently bought a ZX. It has only one key, not a plip.
Here are a couple of thoughts. Should it have a blip - it seems to have the RF thingy by the interior light.
If it has can I still buy a plip or plips and tune it/them in?

Can't find a normal, as opposed to plip, blank key. The distributor's parts dept just looks blank, the local specialists (and there are but few) just say "No Have"
The key I have seems similar but nit quite the same as the Xantia, a 4 ribbed affair - are blanks still available anywhere please?
If so, where?
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"Rf thingy". Do you mean the infra red little black bubble thingy? ;-) I did a search on the bay for Citroen zx remote key fob and there were two used ones for little money. Then we come to the will they won't they program question and I'm not sure.

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Post by uncle buck »

If the car has the IR bubble beside the interior mirror I would guess it has had a plip at some time, to be sure you could check if there is any circuitry behind the bubble.

When I had my 1994 ZX the plip was separate and not part of the key, it was a little square box about 25mm square.

I would have though you should still be able to get a standard key cut to fit the car from somewhere.

For the central locking (Plip) you could get a cheap car alarm or a remote central locking controller and wire it into the central locking so it would work just like the plip.


More info about the keys / plips here... https://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/ ... hp?t=28959



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Unsure on years for the ZX but typically it went from Infra-Red to Radio about 1997...
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Both my ZX's had a seperate plip, and it was crap on both tbh. Had to be almost touching the windscreen for it to work, and coupled with alarm issues meant I never used it! You will have a opaque dome on the centre interior light assembly, pop that down and you will see the wiring. The car won't alarm without the plip (could be a good thing or a bad thing though depending on the state of your alarm!)

The bloke who bought my last ZX had wired up a chinese remote fob kit to his 1992 ZX and it worked very well. May be worth a PM, username is Dean with some numbers (helpful I know!)
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beko1987 wrote: The bloke who bought my last ZX had wired up a chinese remote fob kit to his 1992 ZX and it worked very well. May be worth a PM, username is Dean with some numbers (helpful I know!)
A couple who fit that description here
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Dean36014! That's the guy! He bought my old green 1.9td for £50,and showed me his locking setup on his red 1.9d. It worked very well!
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