2020 Ford Transit Connect
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2020 Ford Transit Connect Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a woman parked in one of the surface lots off Grand Avenue in Downtown Escondido. She had her 2020 Transit Connect, a lunch break, and a fob that had stopped unlocking the doors from any reasonable distance. Walk right up to the handle and it would sometimes catch. Stand five feet back and nothing. She'd already put a new battery in herself, or thought she had.

She handed me the fob and I could tell right away. The battery she'd bought was a CR2032, close in diameter but thinner than what this fob actually takes. It was rattling slightly inside the case because it wasn't seating flush against the contacts. The fob was firing inconsistently because the power delivery was inconsistent.

I swapped in the correct CR2450, seated it properly, closed the case, and walked the perimeter of the van. Every door responded from a normal distance. The key-not-detected warning that had been coming up on her dash cleared on its own once the fob was reading reliably.

She stood there for a second and said she'd been planning to call the dealer that afternoon. I told her the dealer would have found the same thing, probably scheduled her for next week, and charged her for a full diagnostic before touching the battery. She laughed and went back to lunch.

The job took maybe ten minutes. No programming, no OBD port, just the right part correctly installed.

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