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2010 Toyota Highlander
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Push To Start
Most popular Toyota key typeMost Popular
2010 Toyota Highlander Smart Key HYQ14AAB
FCC IDHYQ14AABPart #271451-0140Buttons4BatteryCR1632Frequency315 MHzRemote StartNo
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Push To Start
2010 Toyota Highlander Smart Key HYQ14AAB
FCC IDHYQ14AABPart #89904-48100Buttons3BatteryCR1632Frequency315 MHzRemote StartNo
✓ In Stock · Programmed On-Site
Transponder Key
2010 Toyota Highlander Transponder Key
FCC IDPart #89785-08020ButtonsBatteryFrequencyRemote StartNo
✓ In Stock · Programmed On-Site
Remote
2010 Toyota Highlander Remote GQ43VT20T
FCC IDGQ43VT20TPart #89742-07020Buttons4BatteryCR2032Frequency315 MHzRemote StartNo
✓ In Stock · Programmed On-Site
Remote
2010 Toyota Highlander Remote GQ43VT20T
FCC IDGQ43VT20TPart #89742-AE010Buttons3BatteryCR2032Frequency315 MHzRemote StartNo
✓ In Stock · Programmed On-Site
Metal Key
2010 Toyota Highlander Metal Key
FCC IDPart #ButtonsBatteryFrequencyRemote StartNo
✓ In Stock · Programmed On-Site
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The 2010 Highlander runs two completely separate key systems depending on trim. Base and mid trims use a transponder turn-key with a separate remote fob. The Limited trim steps up to the Smart Key system with keyless entry built into the fob and push-button start. Same model year, same parking lot, totally different replacement jobs. If you have the Smart Key version, the fob takes a CR1632. A dying battery on these does not always kill the fob outright. More often it gets weird first: reduced range, the door handle touch sensor not responding, or a key-not-detected warning that comes and goes. Swap the battery before assuming the fob is dead. But if a fresh CR1632 does not fix it, the fob itself may need to be reprogrammed or replaced. That is a tool job, not a battery job.
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A woman parked at the Vons off Lomas Santa Fe Drive in Solana Beach walked out of the store and got the warning on the dash. Key not detected. She had the fob in her hand. She tried the door handle again. Nothing. Tried the start button with the fob pressed directly against it the way someone had told her to do once. The car started that way, which told me something before I even got there.

When she called, she mentioned the fob had been acting up for a few weeks. Range had been short. She figured it was the battery and kept forgetting to change it. Then it stopped working entirely except for the direct-contact trick.

I got to her in the lot. The CR1632 inside was so depleted my meter barely registered it. Swapped it out, reseated the contacts, and tested range from about twenty feet. Touch unlock on the door handle came back. All four buttons responded. Start button picked up the fob from the cupholder where it normally lives. That is what a good battery reads like on this system.

I did not stop there. I walked the whole fob function: both front handles, the hatch, lock, unlock, and the alarm button. Took maybe ten minutes total. Everything behaved.

She had been two days away from calling the dealer because she assumed the fob was dead and the dealer was the only one who could sort it. She would have been looking at a significant wait, a tow if the direct-contact trick stopped working, and a bill well above what she paid me. All of it for a battery that cost less than a coffee.

The technology in these Smart Key fobs is real. But the first answer is almost always the simplest one.

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Do I have to go to the Toyota dealer to get a replacement smart key for my 2010 Highlander?
No. A mobile locksmith with the right equipment can cut and program a replacement smart key on site, wherever your Highlander is parked. The dealer requires a scheduled appointment, and if you have no working key at all, that usually means a tow first. Owners on Toyota forums have reported multi-day turnarounds just for a replacement fob on this generation. With me, the job happens in one visit, at your location in Lomas Santa Fe or anywhere else in Solana Beach, and you drive away with a tested, working key.
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