Toyota Taxi Fleet in Manchester: Spare Keys and All Keys Lost
Autobahn spent a day working for a Toyota taxi fleet in Manchester, completing several jobs: programming spare keys and dealing with vehicles where all keys had been lost. For a taxi operator, every car off the road is lost income.
What the job record confirms
- Customer
- A taxi fleet operator in Manchester
- Vehicles
- Toyota taxis (models and number of vehicles not stated)
- Work carried out
- Multiple jobs, including spare key programming and all-keys-lost work
- Result
- Fleet vehicles kept on the road
- Services
- Spare key programming; all keys lost; fleet work
- Location
- Manchester (stated in the post)
Source: this record is taken from Autobahn’s own Instagram post of 21 May 2026.
Why fleet work is done in one visit
Fleet key work is about downtime rather than a single key. Dealing with several vehicles on the same day, rather than booking each car separately, gets more of the fleet earning again sooner. The post records both kinds of job: spare keys and vehicles with no key at all.
Background: spare keys and all-keys-lost on fleet vehicles
The points below are general information about this kind of job. They explain the work; they are not additional details about this particular vehicle.
Adding a spare while a working key still exists is usually the simpler job, because the car’s immobiliser can often be accessed with the working key present. When every key has gone, the key has to be created and coded to the car from scratch, which is the bigger job on most vehicles.
For operators, keeping at least two coded keys per vehicle, and a record of who holds them, turns an all-keys-lost emergency into a planned spare-key job.
Not recorded
To keep this record accurate, the following are not published because the original post does not state them: the Toyota models, how many vehicles were worked on, which vehicles had no key, and the operator’s name.
Run a fleet?
Send the registrations and how many working keys each vehicle has. We will plan the work to keep as many vehicles moving as possible.