2022 Ford Transit Connect
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2022 Ford Transit Connect Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a woman over in the Seacoast neighborhood of Imperial Beach on a Tuesday morning. Her 2022 Transit Connect was sitting in her driveway and she had one fob, no backup, and it had stopped waking the car up.

Handle touch did nothing. She could physically get in with the mechanical insert key inside the fob, but push-button start wouldn't acknowledge it. The car just sat there.

She had already called the dealer. They wanted her to tow it in and said she was looking at a multi-day turnaround. She had somewhere to be that afternoon and the tow alone would have been a whole production.

I pulled up to the driveway with the equipment already loaded. First thing I did was open the fob and check the CR2450. It was the original cell from the factory, three years in, and it was reading low. Swapped it, reseated everything, and tested. The handle touch woke right up and the push-button start saw the fob immediately.

So the fob itself was fine. Dead battery, nothing more.

We talked for a few minutes about getting a spare programmed while I was already there, which is always the smarter move when you're running on a single key. She decided to hold off for now, which is her call. I showed her the correct CR2450 size to keep on hand and walked her through swapping it herself next time.

She was inside and back to her morning inside of thirty minutes. The dealer visit never happened.

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