2020 Subaru BRZ
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2020 Subaru BRZ Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

It was a weekend night in Old Town National City, and someone had grabbed her purse off the back of her chair at a patio. Keys, wallet, phone, all of it gone in under a minute. She borrowed a friend's phone and called the police. Then her sister. Then me.

Her 2020 Subaru BRZ was sitting in the lot with no keys at all. Her sister had already called the dealer while she was waiting for the police report. The dealer's answer: tow it in, plan for three to five business days, and they strongly recommended rekeying the locks on top of everything else because the stolen fob could still access the car. The combined estimate her sister got was over seven hundred dollars.

I got there that same night.

All-keys-lost after a theft is its own category of job. It is not just programming a new fob. The first thing I do is clear the vehicle's key memory completely, so the stolen fob becomes useless for starting the car. Then I register new keys from zero. I ran the procedure through the diagnostic port, wiped the old key data, and enrolled two new fobs. I also cut the emergency blade on each so she had full functionality, not just a remote.

She had working keys before the officer called back with the report number.

The dealer's quote was not wrong, exactly. They would have done the job. But not that night, not in the parking lot where her car was sitting, and not for what she paid us. The stolen fob can still physically reach the door lock cylinder if someone has the right tool, but it cannot start the car. That part matters.

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