BD Laser Max key cutting question

[cain555]

My guys constantly bend the tracer on this unit, but no one seems to know why. Anyone else have this problem? It was recalibrated recently... thanks!

[possum]

Our issue was paying attention to the "trace" key being flat on the jaw and most importantly the tip depth slide that will vary from key to key.

[Richard]

The machine also 'jumps' on it's own a lot, breaking the trace bit and cutting bit, a major reason why we ended up switching to the ILCO machine.

[cain555]

ok thank you....

[SYSTEMBOB]

MAKE SURETHE GUYS ARE STARTING OVER AND PICKING THE EXACT VEHICLE EVERY TIME.

[Denise Trimble]

The machine's engineer spent 5 hours at our dealership, once we got our 4th machine, and was unable to make it function properly. We just learned to live with it, and begin charging a code/cut charge to compensate the bad cut keys as well as the tracer tips & cutting blades.

[camaroman]

We charge other dealers $15.00 to cut laser keys and for customers we charge $35.00 to get the code and cut a key.

[dalempm]

make sure the customers key you are tracing is clean ad free of any dirt take a wire brush and clean the old key.