2002 Pontiac Grand Am
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2002 Pontiac Grand Am Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I was parked off the main stretch in Rancho Santa Fe Village when the call came in. A Grand Am owner, 2002, four-door. He had the key, but the fob had been dead for weeks and he finally got tired of manually unlocking every time.

He had already bought a replacement fob online. Smart move buying the right fob for the car, actually. The factory FCC ID on the fob was correct. But it was sitting in his glovebox unprogrammed because the YouTube video he found told him there was a button sequence to do it himself, and it never worked.

That happens a lot with this era of GM. There are forum posts everywhere swearing you can do a self-programming sequence. Some of them are partially right, but they all leave out the part where you need a working programmed key already in hand to enter the sequence at all. He only had the dead original key, which still started the car but whose fob functions had given up years ago.

I connected through the OBD port, pulled up the body control module, and programmed his new fob and re-registered the original one at the same time so he'd have both working. Took maybe twenty minutes on site, including testing all four buttons on both fobs and running the lock and unlock on every door.

He watched the whole thing from the curb. At the end he said the dealer had quoted him a wait of several days just to get an appointment. He hadn't gone, obviously. That's usually how I end up out here.

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