2013 MINI Hardtop 2 Door
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2013 MINI Hardtop 2 Door Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call on a Sunday evening from La Mesa Village, a guy standing outside a restaurant on La Mesa Boulevard.

He'd handed his key off to someone to grab something from the car, it got dropped on the pavement, and the blade snapped at the base where it meets the fob housing. The fob body was intact, the chip was fine, but he had a car he couldn't start and no way to get inside.

By the time he found my number, he'd already confirmed the dealer was closed and the earliest appointment was Tuesday morning. He wasn't in crisis mode, but he was calm in that tired way people get when they've already accepted a bad night.

I was in La Mesa already, wrapping up another call. I pulled up, looked at the damage, and confirmed the fob electronics were still working. The issue was purely mechanical: broken blade, fob otherwise functional. I transferred the chip and remote components into a new housing, cut a fresh blade to match the vehicle, and programmed the full unit so the immobilizer would accept it.

He tested it himself, standing right there on the sidewalk. Engine started, remote worked, and he drove home instead of waiting two days and paying dealer rates for what turned into a one-hour Sunday evening job.

The dealer part wasn't the hard part. The timing was. That's why I keep the hours I keep.

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