2017 Toyota 86
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2017 Toyota 86 Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman who works in the tech corridor off Bernardo Center Drive parked her 2017 Toyota 86 in the covered structure near her office in Seven Oaks one morning and her key just stopped cooperating by lunch. Buttons did nothing. She could still insert the blade and turn the ignition, but the remote was dead. She assumed the battery had finally given out.

She called the dealer first. They quoted her parts, cutting, and programming labor as three separate line items, plus a note that she would need to bring the car in. She was on a deadline and not in a position to leave the car overnight at a dealership in the middle of a workweek.

She called me instead.

I came to the parking structure during her afternoon break. The original fob battery had been replaced at some point with the wrong size. It was physically wedged in but not making a clean contact. Corrected that first. The remote still did not register correctly, so I connected to the OBD port, read the immobilizer data, and programmed a new key to the vehicle on site. Cut the blade to match. Tested lock, unlock, trunk, and panic before she even walked back to the car.

The whole job was done before she finished her meeting. She paid a fraction of what the dealer quoted, with no tow, no appointment wait, and no leaving her car somewhere overnight. She mentioned she had not even known a mobile locksmith could handle Toyota immobilizer work. A lot of people do not.

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