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2017 Ram 1500 Remote Head Key GQ4-53T
FCC IDGQ4-53TPart #68159655Buttons5BatteryCR2032Frequency433 MHzRemote StartYes
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2017 Ram 1500 Remote Head Key GQ4-53T
FCC IDGQ4-53TPart #68105083AGButtons4BatteryCR2032Frequency433 MHzRemote StartYes
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2017 Ram 1500 Remote Head Key GQ4-53T
FCC IDGQ4-53TPart #68105081AFButtons3BatteryCR2032Frequency433 MHzRemote StartNo
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The 2017 Ram 1500 uses a remote head key, the kind where the key blade folds or pivots out of the fob body. That pivot point is the weak spot. Heavy keychains, especially with carabiner-style clip-ons that truck owners love, put constant lateral stress on the blade hinge. Over time the blade develops play, and when it wobbles in the ignition cylinder it can move the transponder chip inside the fob just enough that the immobilizer loses its read. The truck turns over fine, nothing happens, and the owner thinks the starter or battery is the problem. It is not. It is the fob. Check the blade pivot before you chase anything else. If it has any side-to-side slop, the fob is the first suspect.
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Alpine Village sits right off the 8, and I get calls from that stretch regularly, mostly people heading out toward the backcountry or coming back from the boat ramp with a problem they have been ignoring since they left home.

This one was a fisherman. He had watched one of my Ram key replacement videos a few months before anything went wrong, just curious about the process. He saved my number then, which is the best kind of customer, because when his 2017 Ram 1500 remote head key finally gave out he was not panicking and searching blind. He called me directly.

His fob had the classic slow failure. The remote buttons started working only part of the time. Then the range dropped off to a few feet. Then one morning at the boat ramp the truck just sat there. Key turned, nothing fired. He checked the battery, swapped it, same result. That is when he called.

I met him in Alpine Village. The fob body had a hairline crack near the blade pivot, probably from years on a loaded keychain. The blade had just enough wobble that the transponder was not sitting where the immobilizer expected it. I cut a fresh key blade to his truck, transferred to a new fob shell, programmed the replacement using my diagnostic equipment, and tested every button plus three cold starts before I handed it back.

He mentioned what the dealer had quoted him. I will just say he was not expecting to save what he saved. Same result, done on site, no tow, no waiting around.

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What is the cheapest way to handle all-keys-lost on my 2017 Ram 1500?
Call a mobile locksmith before you call a tow truck. Dealer all-keys-lost jobs on a 2017 Ram 1500 run steep, and most dealers will not get to it the same day, which means storage fees on top of the tow. When I handle an all-keys-lost job on one of these in Alpine, I come to your location, cut replacement key blades to the truck, reset the immobilizer so it wipes the old key memory, and program the new remote head keys so both the transponder and the remote functions work. I test everything before I leave. No flatbed, no overnight, no waiting on a parts order because I stock what these trucks need. The savings over the dealer route are real, and you get it handled where the truck is sitting rather than where the dealer wants it.
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