2014 Audi S4
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2014 Audi S4 Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

It was a warm afternoon out in Poway, Garden Road Area, and the customer met me in a parking lot near his building. He had a 2014 Audi S4 and one working smart fob. He wanted a spare because his wife had taken the second one across the country and they'd realized the hard way that running on a single key for an Audi is not a great plan.

He'd already called the dealer. The service advisor quoted him a wait of several days for the key to be ordered, then another appointment for programming. The total they described was not small.

I was already in Poway, so the timing worked out.

I pulled up to his car, connected my diagnostic equipment to the OBD port, and read the existing key data from the immobilizer. On the B8.5 S4, the system holds the registered key data and you work with that to add a new key without wiping the existing one, which matters a lot when someone only has one fob left and does not want to risk losing it. I coded the new fob, verified the transponder was accepted, and tested remote functions and the emergency insert blade as well.

The whole thing was done in the parking lot, no tow, no appointment, no waiting on a part to ship from a warehouse. He had a working spare before his afternoon was over.

The dealer comparison came up briefly, just in passing. He said he'd saved a good chunk. That part is almost always true on these.

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