2006 Cadillac DTS
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2006 Cadillac DTS Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Out in Mission Oaks, I got a call from a guy who had snapped his only key off in his hand walking to the car. The bow cracked clean away from the blade, and the blade itself was still in the ignition cylinder. He'd already tried fishing it out with a pen cap, which made things worse.

He found me after calling the Cadillac dealer first. They told him to have the car towed in, said they'd get to it when they could, and quoted him a wait of a couple days before they could even look at it. He didn't have a couple of days. He had a HOA meeting to chair that evening and a car stuck in his own driveway.

I drove to his place in Mission Oaks and extracted the broken blade from the cylinder without pulling the lock. Then I decoded the cut from the lock itself, cut a new key blade on the spot, and programmed the transponder chip through the OBD port. The whole job took under an hour, start to finish, on his driveway.

He made his meeting. The dealer option would have meant a tow truck, a wait, and a bill he wasn't going to like. What he paid me instead was a fraction of what that route would have cost, and his car never left the neighborhood.

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