2017 Subaru Impreza
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2017 Subaru Impreza Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Out in San Pasqual Valley, the kind of area where you're a good drive from anything, a guy had been borrowing his roommate's car for three days by the time he called me. His 2017 Impreza had been sitting in the driveway, and he had convinced himself it needed a dealer visit. He'd already called the dealer. He said the word "tow" came up almost immediately in that conversation.

He had one fob, and the car had stopped recognizing it. Not sometimes. Always. Push-button start would light up the dash with a warning and do nothing else.

I asked him to try the insert blade on the door first, just to rule out a totally dead battery in the fob. It unlocked the door, which told me the fob shell and blade were fine. Fresh CR2032, properly seated. Tested the fob outside the car at range. Still nothing on the push-button start.

That told me what I needed to know. The fob itself had desynced from the immobilizer, which happens. It's not a disaster. I connected my programmer to the OBD port and ran the smart key registration for the 2017 Impreza. One fob, already in hand, re-enrolled in about twenty minutes. Tested every button, tested the start, walked the door handles.

He'd been without his car for three days waiting to work up the nerve to deal with the dealer. I was there and done before it got dark. The dealer comparison didn't really come up because the gap was obvious enough without saying it out loud.

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