2002 Toyota Highlander
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego

2002 Toyota Highlander Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

She was at a restaurant in the Las Americas Area in San Ysidro when her bag got taken right off the chair next to her. Keys, wallet, phone, all of it. She borrowed someone's phone, called the police, then her husband, then me.

Her 2002 Toyota Highlander was sitting in the parking lot with no keys at all. Her husband had already called the dealer. Three to five business days, tow it in, they recommended a rekey on top of everything else. The estimate they gave him was not a small number.

All-keys-lost is a different animal than just adding a spare. When a working key already exists, the car trusts it and you are adding to that. When every key is gone, I wipe the immobilizer memory clean and start fresh. That way the stolen key is dead. It might still physically enter the door cylinder, but the engine will not run for it. That is the first thing I tell people in this situation, because it is what they need to hear right away.

I got there that evening with my diagnostic equipment, cleared the old key data from the immobilizer, and registered two new remotes from scratch. Decoded the lock, cut both key blades, and ran through every function on both fobs before I packed up. She had two working keys before the police report was even finished.

The dealer estimate involved a tow, a multi-day wait, and a number that made her husband go quiet on the phone. She drove home that night. The stolen key has not started that car since the moment I wiped the memory, and it never will.

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