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There is a smog check shop over in Loma Alta that I have gotten calls from before. They see a lot of older trucks and work vehicles, so when something weird happens in their lot, they know to call someone who shows up with more than one plan.
This one started with a 2020 Frontier that already had a bad day before I got there. The owner had lost his only key and called a different locksmith first. That locksmith started the all-keys-lost procedure, the truck's battery sagged mid-sequence, and the immobilizer went into a fault state. The other tech packed up and left. The smog shop called me.
When I pulled up, the truck would not respond to anything. No start, no key recognition, nothing at the push-button. The dash was showing a key warning and the security light was sitting steady, not blinking the way it normally would in a parked and locked state.
First thing I did was clamp my jump pack to the battery and hold the voltage stable. That part matters more than most people realize. A lot of mid-sequence failures come down to voltage drop at the wrong moment, and trying to recover without stable power just repeats the problem.
Once I had clean, stable voltage, I connected through the OBD port and cleared the fault that the previous attempt had left behind. The module needed a clean slate before it would accept a new key enrollment. That is not unusual after a failed all-keys-lost attempt. After the fault cleared, I ran the full programming sequence, the new fob enrolled on the first pass, and the truck started without hesitation.
Total time was closer to an hour and a half than a typical job. The interrupted attempt added steps that a clean first-run job would not have. I walked the smog shop guys through what had happened so they could explain it to the next customer who shows up in a similar situation.
The owner got a working key, the truck left under its own power, and the dealer never came into the conversation.
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