2006 Ford Fusion
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Out in Ramona Country Estates on a Sunday, a woman flagged me down after church. She was calm about it but clearly done being patient.

She told me she had already paid another locksmith to cut and program a replacement key for her 2006 Fusion. The car would crank, catch for a second, then die. Every time. The other tech had told her the car probably had a module problem and left with his money.

She had been driving her daughter's car for three days.

I asked her to crank it once while I watched. Two-second start and stall, right on cue. That is not a module problem. That is an immobilizer that accepted a key during programming but never finished writing it to permanent memory. Happens when the security timer gets rushed or the sequence gets interrupted. The key data sits there half-written and the system rejects it at every start.

I connected my programmer through the OBD port, cleared the incomplete key data from the previous attempt, and ran a clean enrollment from scratch with both a primary and a secondary key blank, because this system requires two. The security countdown ran its full cycle. I did not rush it.

When it finished I handed her both keys, had her start the car herself, and watched her sit there for a moment after it idled up cleanly, like she was waiting for it to change its mind.

The remote functions on the fob came back too, all three buttons, once the transponder side was confirmed solid.

She had already paid once for a job that was not done. I made sure she was not paying twice for the same problem.

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