2017 Honda Civic
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She was at a taco stand patio in Lakeside Proper after a long shift. Her bag was off the back of her chair for maybe ten minutes. When she looked down, it was gone. Wallet, phone, keys, all of it.

She borrowed the cashier's phone and called the police first, then her sister. Her sister called me.

Her 2017 Civic was sitting in the lot with zero keys to its name. The dealer her sister called said they could order the fob, but the car would need to be towed in and they were looking at several business days out. They also recommended having the system serviced since the stolen fob could still operate the car. The combined estimate her sister relayed to me was not small.

I got to the lot that night. All-keys-lost is a fundamentally different job than adding a spare. When a working key is already in the system, adding a second fob is relatively quick because the car already trusts one known key. With all keys gone, I have to clear the entire key memory first and rebuild from zero. I connected my diagnostic equipment to the OBD port, accessed the immobilizer, wiped the stored key data so the stolen fob would be dead to the car, and then enrolled two new fobs from scratch. I also cut the emergency insert blade so she had a physical backup.

She had two working keys before the police even called back.

The dealer estimate included the tow, the wait, and a multi-day turnaround. She paid a fraction of that, same night, in the parking lot where it happened. The stolen fob can still physically insert into the door lock, but the immobilizer will not let the engine run. That car was hers again.

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