2007 Kia RIO
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2007 Kia RIO
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It was a July afternoon in San Luis Rey, and she had a full Costco run sitting in the back of her 2007 Kia RIO. Frozen stuff. The kind of haul you don't want sitting in a locked car at 95 degrees.
Her remote had stopped working in the parking lot. She'd been clicking it for five minutes by the time she called me. The car was locked, the groceries were in there, and the dealer told her the earliest they could see her was the following morning.
I was 20 minutes out.
When I got there, I popped the remote open first. The CR2032 was reading low on my tester, borderline dead. Swapped it, tested range. Better, but not right. The remote still wasn't talking to the car the way it should. She mentioned the car had been jump-started a few weeks back after the battery died completely. That kind of hard reset on the electrical system can knock the remote out of sync with the immobilizer on these older Kias.
I connected through the OBD port, pulled up the key programming for her vehicle, used the PIN-based process the system requires, and re-registered the remote. Tested lock, unlock, and the trunk release. All three buttons working, clean response from across the parking lot.
From her first call to the engine running was 44 minutes. The frozen food made it home.
She mentioned the dealer quote almost as an aside. It was a lot more, and they wanted her to leave the car overnight. She seemed less bothered by the price difference than by the idea of abandoning her groceries until Tuesday.
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