2004 Dodge Durango
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2004 Dodge Durango Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A guy called me on a Saturday afternoon from the dirt staging area just outside South Oceanside, the kind of spot where people unload ATVs and trucks sit in the sun all day. He had ridden out, come back, and gone through every pocket twice. The key to his 2004 Dodge Durango was gone somewhere on the trail.

He had already called another locksmith. That locksmith told him the ignition would need to be drilled because there were no keys at all, and that the cylinder would have to come out. The quote was steep. He asked me if that was really necessary.

It is not.

I drove out, pulled up next to his Durango, and used a Lishi-style pick and decoder on the door lock. No drilling, nothing removed, nothing harmed. Reading the wafer positions gives me the factory cut depths. I cut a new blade from that data, built the remote head key with a fresh transponder, and ran the all-keys-lost sequence through the OBD port to register the new key to the vehicle security system and pair the remote. The whole thing took about forty-five minutes in the parking lot.

He had one working key, a functioning remote, and the original lock cylinder doing its job exactly as it always had. The other guy's quote involved drilling out hardware that did not need to be touched.

That is the difference between someone who knows these systems and someone who reaches for the drill first.

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