2017 Nissan Versa
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2017 Nissan Versa Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Out near the Seacoast neighborhood in Imperial Beach, I got a call from a guy who had been fishing most of the morning. He had his 2017 Nissan Versa parked close to the water, came back to it, and somewhere between the dock and the car his only key was gone. Checked his pockets three times, retraced his steps, asked around. Nothing.

He was not in any hurry to call a dealer and find out they needed three or four days and a tow. He called me instead.

When I got there the car was sitting right in the lot, no key, no spare, nothing. First thing I did was get the door open mechanically and decode the lock so I could cut a blade that matched the vehicle exactly. Then I connected through the OBD port and ran the all-keys-lost sequence on the immobilizer. That process wipes any previously registered fobs from the system so a lost key cannot be used to start the car later. Then the new fob gets enrolled as the primary.

Once the programming was done, I cut the emergency blade to match the decode, assembled the fob, and walked him through testing everything: door handles, the start button, the mechanical blade in the door cylinder. It all came up clean.

He asked me almost as an afterthought what the dealer would have charged. I told him to add a tow, a wait until the next available appointment, and a parts-plus-labor invoice that would have been a lot more than what he paid me. He nodded and went back to thinking about whether the fish were still biting.

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