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I got a call from a body shop in Downtown Fallbrook. Not the car owner directly. The shop.
What happened was this: the owner needed a replacement smart key for his 2024 Malibu. The body shop called another locksmith. That locksmith connected, started the programming sequence, hit a power hiccup or a tool error mid-sequence, and the BCM threw a security fault. After that, the OBD port was effectively locked out from standard key programming. The first locksmith packed up and told the shop to tow it to the dealer. The shop called me instead.
When I got there, the dash was showing a key-not-detected warning and a theft deterrent alert that would not clear on its own. The car would not start. Standard OBD-based programming was not going to work because the BCM was sitting in a fault state from the interrupted attempt.
I had my bench programmer in the van. I pulled the BCM, read the security data directly off the module, cleared the fault state, and rebuilt the immobilizer handshake from the ground up before attempting to register the new fob. Once the module was clean, the new key paired on the first sequence. Theft deterrent warning gone. Car started. I put the BCM back, verified every button on the fob, walked the doors, checked remote lock and unlock, and confirmed the engine start before I closed the hood.
The whole job was about an hour and a half, which is longer than a clean all-keys-lost on one of these. But it got done same-day, in the parking lot of a body shop, without a flatbed. The dealer route was a tow plus a multi-day wait. The body shop team asked me to walk them through what went wrong so they could warn customers if it came up again. I did.
That is exactly why I carry the bench tools. The first approach sometimes hits a wall. That does not mean the job is over.
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