2009 Kia Sorento
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2009 Kia Sorento
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2009 Kia Sorento Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
There's a Sunday swap meet off the main stretch in North El Cajon where vendors set up early and stay until the afternoon heat gets serious. I know the area well because I've gotten calls from that lot more than once.
This one was from a guy who sells aftermarket parts for a living. Not a casual hobbyist, someone who deals in this stuff daily. His 2009 Kia Sorento was sitting in the lot and he needed a key made. He had one working key and wanted a spare, which is exactly the right instinct. He told me he'd already looked it up and figured he needed the dealer because some forum post from a few years back said Kia key programming required factory software.
That post was outdated.
I met him between his tables. The 2009 Sorento is a turn-key vehicle with a transponder in the head. No fob involved. The replacement process is cut a new key blade to match the vehicle, get the transponder chip enrolled through the OBD port using a PIN-based registration sequence, and confirm it starts. The whole thing took about twenty minutes on site.
He tested it himself. Turned the key, car started, no hesitation. He seemed mildly annoyed that he'd been prepared to haul it to a dealer on a weekday and miss work over it.
The dealer route would have meant a weekday appointment, an order wait for the key, and a labor charge that doesn't reflect how long the actual programming takes. He paid a fraction of that and went back to selling parts.
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