2010 Chevrolet Corvette
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2010 Chevrolet Corvette Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Moonlight Beach draws a certain crowd in summer, and one afternoon I got a call from someone parked right near the water in a 2010 Corvette. Both fobs were gone. Not misplaced. Gone. He had been at the beach and somewhere between the sand and the lot, the situation went sideways. No working key, no way to trigger the start button, and a car that was not going anywhere.

He had already called the dealer. They told him the car needed to be towed in, and the wait for parts and programming was going to run several days. He found me before he called the tow truck.

I drove out to Moonlight Beach, which is about as good a service call setting as this job offers. The all-keys-lost procedure on a Corvette of this generation is not a quick add-a-key sequence. The vehicle security system holds programmed key data in the body control module, and when every registered fob is gone, that data has to be cleared and rebuilt from scratch before any new fob will be recognized. I backed up the module data first as a precaution, then ran the full all-keys-lost sequence through the OBD port using professional diagnostic equipment. New fob, paired and confirmed. Start button worked. Doors worked. Everything the four-button fob is supposed to do, it did.

He was back on the road without a tow, without a multi-day dealer wait, and for a fraction of what they wanted. The dealer comparison was barely a footnote. The bigger thing was that he didn't lose the rest of his afternoon.

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