2015 Chrysler 200
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2015 Chrysler 200 Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Out in The Bridges in Rancho Santa Fe, I got a call from a guy managing a small fleet of company vehicles. One of them was a 2015 Chrysler 200 that a previous locksmith had already touched, and not in a good way.

He told me the story while I was still pulling up. His company had called a locksmith they found through a paid search ad. The guy quoted something cheap over the phone, showed up without any real equipment, and spent about an hour pretending to work before charging nearly five times the original quote. When he left, the fob would start the car but every single button on the remote was dead. Lock, unlock, trunk, panic, all of it gone. The car ran, so they kept using it, but they were manually locking doors every time.

He found me through Google Guaranteed and his first question on the call was whether I was licensed. That's the right question. I gave him my BSIS license number right there on the phone and told him to look it up on the state website while we were still talking. He did.

When I got to the vehicle, it was clear what the previous guy had done. He'd enrolled the transponder side of the fob but never properly completed the remote registration. The vehicle's security system recognized the key for starting but the remote functions were sitting in a half-paired state.

I connected through the OBD port, read the PIN, cleared the stored key data, and re-enrolled the fob from scratch. Walked every button. Lock, unlock, trunk release, panic, remote start button. All five came back clean. Took about 35 minutes on site.

He mentioned the dealer had been the other option. He'd called them first and they'd quoted him a wait plus a tow since the fob situation had them nervous about whether the car would cooperate. He passed on that. The mobile visit cost him a fraction of what the scam locksmith had already taken, and this time the job was actually finished.

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