2018 Ram 1500
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego
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2018 Ram 1500
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Out in Bressi Ranch, I got a call from a woman who drives a 2018 Ram 1500 for work.
She said the truck had been acting strange for about two weeks -- starting fine in the morning, then by afternoon the push-to-start sequence would hesitate or she'd get a key-not-detected warning on the dash. She figured it was the battery or maybe the truck needed a reset. She'd already had another locksmith out.
When I got there she handed me the fob. It looked right. Five buttons, correct body style, blade folded out cleanly. But the FCC ID on the back was not the correct one for this truck.
What happened is the previous shop used a fob that was close enough to pass the first stage of programming but wasn't the right part for this application. On these trucks, the immobilizer and the RF system do a deeper handshake after initial pairing. A near-match can fool the first check and fail the second one, sometimes hours later, sometimes after a few days of heat cycles. That's exactly what she was experiencing. It wasn't the truck. It was the wrong part.
I verified what the truck actually needed, programmed a correct replacement fob using the right part spec, and walked through every function with her before I left. Locks, unlock, panic, the remote start if equipped, all of it.
She texted the next morning to say it had started without a single hesitation. The dealer had quoted her a wait of several days just to get an appointment. She got it handled in her driveway, same afternoon she called.
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