2006 Subaru WRX
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2006 Subaru WRX Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a woman in Berry Park, Imperial Beach, on a weekday afternoon. She had a 2006 Subaru WRX and one key. That key had been through enough, and the plastic head had a hairline crack running right through the ring post area. She hadn't thought much of it until that morning, when the car cranked and died immediately. Then cranked and died again. She thought it was a fuel problem. A neighbor thought it was the battery.

It was the transponder.

I pulled up to the street near her place and she walked out looking like she'd already spent two hours troubleshooting something she didn't sign up for. I explained what was happening before I even touched the car: the immobilizer reads the chip on every start attempt, and when that chip shifts or the key head cracks enough to interrupt things, the car fires and kills itself inside a second or two. That's a security system doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Just doing it to the owner.

I decoded the key, cut a new blade to the vehicle, and programmed the replacement transponder using my equipment on site. The whole job happened in her driveway. No tow, no appointment, no waiting room.

When she turned the key and it idled clean, she held it there an extra second like she was waiting for it to die again. It didn't.

The dealer was going to be a two-day ordeal. She had work the next morning.

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