2018 Chevrolet Traverse
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2018 Chevrolet Traverse
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2018 Chevrolet Traverse Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
A guy near Moonlight Beach in Encinitas called me after buying a used 2018 Traverse from a small independent lot. One key. The lot told him to just get a spare made wherever. He tried a couple of hardware stores first. They took one look at the fob and sent him away.
He called the dealer next. The number they gave him was enough to make him pause, and that's when he found me.
When I got there, he was parked right off the beach access, afternoon wind coming off the water. He handed me the original fob and said, "The guy at the lot made it sound like it was no big deal." I told him the lot probably didn't know what was involved, and that's not unusual with independent used car sales.
The 2018 Traverse smart key system requires diagnostic equipment to register a new fob. There's no ignition-turn sequence, no button trick. I connected to the OBD port, pulled up the vehicle's security module, and added the new fob as a paired key without wiping the original. Cut the emergency blade to match the vehicle, tested passive entry on both front doors, tested the start, ran through all five buttons.
He now had two working keys. If he ever loses one going forward, that's an add-a-key job. If he'd lost both before calling me, it would have been a longer, more involved process. That second key isn't just convenience. It's insurance against a much worse day.
He didn't say much. Just asked if the fob would work the same as the first one. It did. He drove off with the windows down toward the 101.
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