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Lowes, and most hardware stores, can do that, but they way they do it required the old key be fully functional. Each key chip has a unique ID code. The hardware store method clones the key you take in, so it imprints the ID code from your old key onto the new one. If the chip in the existing key has failed their machine probably can't get the ID code.
Does that mean my original spare key and my original in-use key have different codes?
They should. If they are both original they will. But the car can hold up to 8 key IDs.
Then its the PATS module. The name of the other module is the only thing that would be incorrect about what I said.
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