2005 Hyundai Tucson
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2005 Hyundai Tucson Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a woman in De Luz, out past the ranch roads where cell signal gets patchy. She was at her sister's birthday gathering and her 2005 Tucson remote had just stopped responding.

The car started fine with the key, but the lock and unlock buttons on the fob were dead. She had been pressing it harder and harder the way everyone does, like more pressure changes the outcome.

She handed it to me and I could feel the housing had a little give at the seam. Someone had been in there before. When I popped it open, the CR2032 was seated crooked, tilted up on one edge so it was only making partial contact with the positive terminal. The board looked clean. No corrosion, no cracked traces.

I seated the battery flat, clipped the housing back together so it latched on both sides, and handed it back. She pointed it at the car from about twenty feet away and the locks cycled. She looked at it like it had personally apologized to her.

We still went through the re-sync process to make sure the rolling code was aligned with the receiver, because a fob that has been clicking with no response for a while can drift out of sync. That took about a minute standing next to the car. After that, full range, all three buttons working.

She asked me what I charged for that. I told her. She said the dealer had quoted her a new fob plus programming. The look on her face said everything.

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