2016 Ford F-150
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It was a Sunday morning near Flinn Springs. She came up to me after church service, a little embarrassed, and explained that she had already paid someone else to make a key for her 2016 F-150. The key that tech left her with would crank the truck, let it fire for about two seconds, and then the engine died every single time. The previous locksmith told her she had a module problem and walked away with her money.
I hear that story more than I should.
The truck did not have a module problem. It had a programming problem. What she was describing is a known failure mode when the security learn sequence gets rushed or interrupted. The immobilizer accepts the key data in the short term but does not write it to permanent memory. The truck fires on the initial crank, the security system catches up, and then it shuts the fuel off. From the driver's seat it feels like an engine issue. It is not.
I verified the mechanical cut first to confirm the blade was at least correct for the vehicle. Then I connected through the OBD port, pulled up the key data, and found the incomplete entry from the previous attempt sitting right there. I cleared it, ran a full clean programming cycle with the timed security sequence completed properly, and confirmed the new fob was written permanently before I closed my tool out. All five buttons worked. She started the truck three times in a row while I watched, no two-second cutoff.
The dealer had quoted her more than I charged, and she had already lost money to the first tech on top of that. I could not get that back for her. But I could make sure the job was actually finished this time, and that she drove away with a key that worked.
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