2008 Honda Odyssey
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I was parked near the shops in Del Mar Village when the call came in. A guy at a muffler shop on the edge of town had been waiting for about forty minutes. Another locksmith had started a key programming job on his 2008 Odyssey, the car battery sagged mid-sequence, and the immobilizer went into a fault state. The other locksmith packed up and left.
That last part always gets me. You don't leave a customer's van dead in a parking lot because the job got harder.
When I pulled up, the Odyssey wouldn't acknowledge the new key at all. The dash was showing a key warning and the engine wouldn't turn over. The previous attempt had interrupted the security handshake at the worst possible moment, and the immobilizer module was sitting in a fault state because of it.
First thing I did was clamp my jump pack to the battery to hold voltage steady. That's the step that got skipped the first time, and it's the step that changes everything on a programming job where the factory battery is tired. Once I had stable power, I connected through the OBD port, cleared the fault condition, and ran a clean programming sequence from scratch. The fob paired on the first attempt after that. I walked every button and verified the engine start before I unhooked anything.
The whole job ran about an hour and a half, longer than a clean first-time program, but that's the recovery tax. He paid a fraction of what a dealer would have charged for the same result, plus he didn't need a flatbed. The muffler shop guys watched the whole thing. I left them with one piece of advice: if anyone ever does key work on that van again, hook up a jump pack before they start.
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