2014 Ford Explorer
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2014 Ford Explorer Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A guy in Otay Mesa West called me on a Monday around noon. His 2014 Explorer was sitting in the daycare parking lot, his kid was getting picked up in a couple hours, and he had one working fob left.

The second one had been dead for months. He had dropped it, the battery cover cracked, and somewhere between the parking lot and the house it got worse. Now the remaining fob was acting up too, range cut in half, and the push-button start was taking two or three attempts.

He had already called the dealer that morning. They told him Thursday, possibly Friday if the key blank needed to be ordered. He had a toddler, no backup vehicle, and the dealer's timeline was not going to work for a Monday afternoon pickup.

I was there by early afternoon. The struggling fob just needed a fresh CR2032 seated properly, the battery contact had a slight bow to it. Took about three minutes. The dead fob was a different story. The internal circuit had taken damage from the drop and a replacement was the right call.

I cut the new fob to the vehicle, ran the programming sequence through the diagnostic port, and walked every function. Lock, unlock, the push-button start, all of it confirmed before I packed up.

He had both fobs working before school let out. The dealer quote was still sitting in his voicemail, unlistened to.

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