1997 Buick Park Avenue
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County
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1997 Buick Park Avenue
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1997 Buick Park Avenue Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
There's a stretch of Las Positas Road in Santa Barbara where people park near the arts corridor, and I got a call out there from a guy who works in set design. He had a 1997 Park Avenue that had been giving him grief for about a week.
A different locksmith had made him a replacement key a few days earlier. It worked the first morning. Then started acting strange. Cold starts were fine. But if he drove somewhere, shut the car off, and came back out within a few hours, it wouldn't start. Security light on, engine cranking and dying. He thought it was the ignition switch at first.
When I got there I asked him to show me the key. Right away I could see it wasn't the right blank. Someone had gotten close but not close enough. I ran my diagnostic tool through the OBD port to read what the theft-deterrent module was seeing, and it confirmed the transponder wasn't passing the full verification cycle. It would pass a cold read, then fail under conditions where the module was doing a deeper check. That's a known failure pattern with incorrect chip variants on this system: it mimics an intermittent fault, so people chase everything else first.
I programmed a new key with the correct transponder, verified the module accepted it, and did three hot-restart cycles on-site before I called it done. He watched all three. The security light stayed off every time.
The dealer quote he'd gotten earlier was more than double what he paid me, and that estimate assumed he'd tow it in. He didn't tow anything. I came to him.
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“Needed a spare car key made and chose EZ Car Keyz based on their reviews. The reviews were right. They gave me the best price, responded quickly to all my questions, came to my workplace, cut the keys on site, and finished fast.”
“Marco came out quickly, cut and programmed a new BMW key fob fast, and was extremely polite and professional.”
“My Sprinter van key broke and I was stranded. Marco was very friendly and helped me get three new keys quickly. I will definitely be using them again.”
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