2011 Ford Fiesta
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego
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2011 Ford Fiesta
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A woman near the Naval Base Area in Coronado had a Fiesta that started in the morning and quit on her by evening. Not a dead battery in the car, not a mechanical issue. The push-button start would flash a key-not-detected warning, she'd try again, sometimes it caught, sometimes it didn't.
She had already been to another locksmith about two weeks before I showed up. He'd made her a replacement fob and programmed it. Worked fine for about eight days. Then the random failures started.
When I got there and opened the fob, the transponder chip inside was not the right one for this vehicle. It was a generic substitute that passed the initial programming but couldn't hold up to the immobilizer's ongoing verification after real-world drive cycles. That's a known failure pattern when the wrong chip gets paired to this system. The car's security system does not just check in once. It keeps checking.
I read the chip in her existing bad key first to confirm exactly what was in there, then cut and programmed a new fob with the correct transponder matched to her car. While I had it open, I also replaced the CR2032, which was reading low and was almost certainly making the intermittent issue worse alongside the chip problem.
Tested it through several lock and unlock cycles, confirmed the push-button start was seeing the fob cleanly, and walked her through what the failure had actually been. She'd already paid someone once for a key that didn't last two weeks. The dealer quote she got after that was steep enough that she almost just lived with the problem. She didn't have to.
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