2003 Subaru Outback
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2003 Subaru Outback
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2003 Subaru Outback Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
A guy in Alpine Village flagged me down in a home improvement store parking lot. He had a 2003 Subaru Outback and a story about a key a different locksmith had made about eight days earlier.
It started fine in the morning. By the afternoon, it would crank and crank but not fire. No warning, no obvious pattern. He had already convinced himself there was a fuel pump going bad or some electrical gremlin deeper in the car. He had the car looked at by a shop. They found nothing wrong with the fuel or ignition hardware.
I asked him about the key first. He said another locksmith had cut and programmed a replacement a little over a week before the trouble started. That was enough for me.
A close-but-wrong transponder chip is one of the more frustrating failure modes in this work. It can pass the initial programming handshake, start the car a dozen times, and then begin dropping out as the immobilizer runs deeper verification cycles. That is exactly what was happening here. The chip in his key was not the right one for this generation of Subaru's immobilizer system. I confirmed it with my programmer, pulled the bad key out of the equation, and programmed a new key with the correct transponder chip. His original fob, the one with the factory FCC ID printed on the back, also had a CR2025 that was nearly depleted, which had been making the remote range worse on top of everything else.
Fresh chip, correct pairing, new battery in the fob. The car started on the first try and the remote locked and unlocked clean from across the lot.
He asked what the dealer would have charged. I told him a good chunk more than what he paid me, and that they would have needed the car towed in and probably a few days on the schedule. He had driven himself to that parking lot, and he drove himself home.
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“Tim was GREAT. I honestly swear he must have had my keys made before he even showed up. The entire process was insanely fast, from the initial phone call to having the keys in my hand. No one will beat the pricing, efficiency, or outstanding service.”
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