2010 Ford Explorer
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2010 Ford Explorer Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

The call came in on a Tuesday afternoon from Blossom Valley, out in Lakeside. She was in a hospital parking lot, groceries in the back seat, July heat doing what July heat does in the valley. The frozen stuff had maybe thirty minutes left.

She had pressed the lock button on her 2010 Explorer remote head key and nothing happened. She pressed unlock. Nothing. She stood there clicking it like maybe the tenth press would be different.

She called the dealer first. Earliest they could see her was the next afternoon. She called me after that, and I was about twenty minutes out.

When I got there, the key would still turn the ignition, which told me the transponder chip was alive. The remote side was the problem. I popped the housing, swapped in a fresh CR2032, and tested all three buttons on the spot. Lock, unlock, and the third button all came back immediately. The old battery was reading low enough that it had quit driving the signal but not low enough that most people would think to replace it.

She asked if I needed to plug into the computer. In this case, no. The programming was intact. The remote just needed power to send its signal again.

I tested everything, walked the doors, and she was back in the driver seat in under twenty minutes from when I pulled up. The ice cream made it.

The dealer visit would have been the next afternoon at a price I won't quote here, but she told me what they said and it was a lot more than what she paid me.

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