2006 Mitsubishi Galant
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2006 Mitsubishi Galant Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

He was at a restaurant near the Naval Base Area in Coronado when someone grabbed his jacket off the booth. Keys, wallet, phone. Gone.

He borrowed the cashier's phone, called the police, then his girlfriend, then me.

His 2006 Mitsubishi Galant was sitting in the parking lot with zero keys. His girlfriend called the dealer while he waited. The dealer said three to five business days, the car would need a tow, and they wanted to reprogram the full system because the stolen key could still access the vehicle. The estimate she got back was steep, and that was before the tow.

I was there within the hour.

All-keys-lost after a theft is a specific job. First thing I do is clear the immobilizer memory so the stolen key becomes useless. It cannot start the car, period. Then I pull up the vehicle, decode the lock cylinder, cut a new key blade to match, and register the transponder so the immobilizer recognizes it. I made two keys so he'd have a spare going forward.

He watched the whole thing from the curb. When I handed him the keys he asked if the stolen one was really dead. I told him once that memory is wiped, the old key is just metal. It will turn nothing, start nothing.

He drove home that night. The dealer's timeline was nearly a week. We handled it in under two hours, on site, for a fraction of what they quoted.

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