2008 Mitsubishi Outlander
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2008 Mitsubishi Outlander Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman in Fernbrook called on a Tuesday afternoon, convinced she needed an appointment at the Mitsubishi dealer and a tow to get there. Her 2008 Outlander was sitting in her driveway in Ramona and the fob had just stopped being recognized. No key-not-detected warning, no drama, it just quit. Door handles stopped responding, and she was getting in and out with the mechanical insert key buried in the fob.

She had already looked up the dealer. Appointment was days out, tow was going to run separately, and she was looking at leaving the car there for who knows how long.

I pulled up to the driveway and started simple. Opened the fob, checked the CR2032. It read low on the meter, not dead, but not healthy either. Swapped it, reseated the contacts, and tested. The handle response came back, but fob range was still shorter than it should have been. That told me the battery had been marginal long enough that the module had dropped the registration.

From there it was a straightforward re-enrollment through the OBD port. The ETACS picked up the fob, confirmed it, and I walked all four buttons and both door handles before I called it done. The whole job happened in the driveway. Car never moved.

She asked at the end if she should have just gone to the dealer. I told her she could have. She also could have waited several days, paid for a tow, and paid the dealer's rate. Her car started fine right where it sat.

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