2017 Ford Fiesta
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2017 Ford Fiesta Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

There is a stretch along the Seacoast neighborhood in Imperial Beach where the campgrounds and beach parking areas bleed into each other, and people end up farther from help than they expected. That is exactly where this job happened.

A guy had driven his 2017 Ford Fiesta down from north county for the weekend. Somewhere between loading up the car and settling in, his only fob went missing. Not dead, not broken. Gone. He had no backup key, no physical blade to fall back on, and a push-button start car that was not going to do anything without a recognized fob in range.

He called after getting a tow company on the phone first. The tow company was honest with him: they could move the car, but that still left him without a way to start it. A dealer visit would mean towing it, waiting for an appointment slot, and paying for the full treatment. He found me instead.

I drove out to meet him. All-keys-lost on a push-button Fiesta is not a turn-the-ignition-and-press-a-button situation. The immobilizer needs old key data cleared through the diagnostic port before it will accept anything new. I backed up the module data as a precaution, ran the all-keys-lost sequence through OBD, programmed a fresh three-button fob to the car, and tested every function before I packed up.

He pressed the start button himself to confirm it. That first clean startup after an all-keys-lost job is always the moment the tension breaks. He had been mentally preparing for a two-day ordeal. It took about forty-five minutes in the parking area, start to finish.

The dealer comparison was something he brought up on his own. He had already gotten a rough estimate over the phone before he called me. The difference was enough that he mentioned it twice.

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