£500 to replace car key
TV presenter tells ’em to get with the times
MOTORISTS who lose car keys face paying £500 for a replacement, with the cost rising by a third since 2013.
Keycare found the average cost of a new key fob is £219 as carmakers fit hitech locking systems.
Jaguar keys are the most costly to replace at an average £542, followed by Hyundai (£540), Land Rover (£481), Porsche (£368)and Mitsubishi (£239).
An old-style central locking key with a set of locks is now £689.
Keycare’s chief executive Steve Wainwright said: “Even during the lockdown, people are still losing car keys while out on daily exercise or getting to and from work.”
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JEREMY Clarkson called on people to stop whining about the good old days and embrace modern Britain.
The telly host thinks some ageing members of the public are missing out on new innovations as they are too stuck in their ways. After years of scoffing at updated models of everyday items, the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire presenter, 60, is embracing change. He said: “We old people need to move on.
“We need to accept that landlines aren’t as good as mobile phones.
“That the Douglas DC-3 is not as good as the Airbus A380. That a typewriter is no match for a laptop.
“Also, I doubt very much that Avengers: Endgame would look quite as good if you watched it on a VHS machine.
“The other week I found my old NAD amplifier and hooked it up to my Wharfedale speakers so I could listen to turntable rock from 1976.
“It was all very nostalgic and thrilling and the music was fabulous, but it sounded as though my head was buried in a woolsack.”
The Grand Tour star recently confessed that during the early years of Top Gear, he and fellow presenters, Richard Hammond, 50, and James May, 57, would have to pay the studio audience to stop late for filming.
Jeremy added: “We were having to pay out of our own pockets for them to stay.
“We were battling and nobody was watching on television, really, not in the first couple of years.”