2012 Audi S5
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2012 Audi S5 Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

She was at the outdoor mall in South Bank, Oxnard, pushing her baby in a stroller when someone grabbed her bag right off the handle. Keys, phone, wallet, gone. She borrowed a store employee's phone and called her husband, then the police, then me.

Her 2012 Audi S5 was sitting in the garage with zero keys to its name. Her husband had already called the dealer by the time I picked up. The dealer said the car would need to be towed in, a key would take several business days to order, and they wanted to do a full key memory wipe because the stolen fob could still unlock and start the car. The estimate they gave him was not a small number.

I got there that evening while the police report was still being taken.

All-keys-lost on a system like this is a different animal from adding a spare. When you add a key to a car that already has a working fob enrolled, the process is relatively quick because the existing key vouches for the new one. AKL means the car trusts nothing. I cleared the entire key memory through the immobilizer, which makes the stolen fob permanently dead to that car. Then I enrolled two new proximity fobs from scratch, decoded and cut both emergency insert blades, and walked every function before I packed up.

She drove home that night with her daughter in the back seat. Two working keys, stolen fob erased, done on site. The dealer wanted days and a tow truck. That is the part she kept repeating to her husband on the phone while I was still standing there.

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