2018 Audi Q3
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I was parked outside a complex in Bressi Ranch when the call came in. The guy sounded calm on the phone, but there was something in the way he described his situation that told me he had already been through it once before with someone else.
He had a 2018 Audi Q3 and a key that would flip open, slide into the ignition, and turn. The engine would crank, fire for a second, and die. Crank, fire, die. He had been through that cycle a dozen times before he stopped trying. Physically the key worked. The car just would not stay running.
He told me he had already paid someone. Found them through a sponsored listing, confirmed the low phone quote, watched the tech spend 40 minutes at the car, and handed over cash for a key that never actually completed enrollment to the immobilizer. The engine start behavior, crank and immediate stall, was the giveaway. The transponder chip in the fob has to be recognized by the immobilizer before the car will hold idle. His was not.
He found me through Google Guaranteed and asked right away how to verify I was legitimate. I gave him my BSIS license number. California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. That license covers background checks, active insurance, and a registered business. He pulled it up on the state website while we were still on the phone.
When I got to him, I connected my diagnostic equipment to the OBD port, ran the full immobilizer enrollment sequence for the Q3, and presented the key at the right point in the process. The system accepted it. I walked every button, confirmed remote lock and unlock, and had him start the car twice from a cold state. Held idle both times.
He paid a fraction of what the dealer would have charged for the same job. The part I remember most is that he did not say much after it started. Just nodded and looked at the car like he was deciding whether to trust it.
He did. It was fine.
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