2021 Toyota Sienna
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I got a call from Spring Valley Village on a Tuesday afternoon. A woman had a 2021 Sienna sitting in her driveway that would start fine in the morning but by evening the push-to-start button just sat there dark. No response, no warning chime, nothing. She'd already had someone else look at it about ten days earlier after losing her original fob. That locksmith had programmed a replacement and sent her on her way.
The problem with a key that almost works is that it builds doubt. She wasn't sure if it was the car, the key, or something she was doing wrong. She'd started leaving earlier in the morning just to avoid getting stranded.
When I got there, I pulled up the fob registration data through the diagnostic port and then read the replacement key that had been programmed. The transponder chip generation was wrong. It wasn't the right type for what the 2021 Sienna's immobilizer expects. What happens in that situation is the initial registration passes because the system does a surface-level check, but Toyota's immobilizer runs a deeper verification over subsequent drive cycles. A mismatched chip generation clears that first check and then starts failing the follow-up ones. Some days it works. Some days it doesn't. It's not random, it just looks random.
I programmed a fresh fob with the correct chip generation matched to the factory FCC ID on her original paperwork, confirmed all six buttons were responding, walked every door handle, and tested the push-to-start three times in a row before I packed up.
She asked me why the other locksmith got it wrong. Honest answer: the chip compatibility on newer Toyota platforms is tighter than people expect, and not every programmer catches the difference. I've seen it happen more than once. Getting it right the first time is the only version of this job that makes sense.
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