2023 Toyota RAV4
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in San Diego
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Out in Carmel Mountain Ranch, I pulled up to an apartment complex off Carmel Mountain Road on a Tuesday morning. The owner had a 2023 RAV4 and exactly zero working keys. She'd bought it certified pre-owned about eight months earlier with one key, told herself she'd get a spare cut eventually, and then one day the fob housing gave out. The plastic cracked across the seam, the blade snapped at the shoulder going into the door lock cylinder, and she was standing in the parking lot holding the fob body in one hand and nothing useful in the other.
Half the blade was still in the lock. That's the part that stops people cold. They see metal stuck in the cylinder and assume the whole lock is ruined. It's not. I extracted the fragment with the right picks, no drama, no damaged cylinder.
The better news was the chip inside the cracked fob housing was completely intact. On a job like this, that matters. I was able to pull the transponder data from the damaged key rather than running a full all-keys-lost procedure, which takes longer and costs more. The salvaged circuit board went into a fresh fob shell, I cut two new blades to the vehicle, and ran the programming sequence through the diagnostic port to register both fobs to the immobilizer.
She had two working keys about 40 minutes after I arrived. She mentioned the dealer had quoted her a number she wasn't ready to hear, and that she'd need to tow the car in first since she had no way to drive it. Coming to her parking spot removed the tow entirely. That alone made the math easy.
If your fob shell is cracked or the blade is snapped but you still have the pieces, hold onto all of it. The chip inside a broken key is often fine, and having it on hand makes the job faster.
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