2007 Chevrolet Equinox
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2007 Chevrolet Equinox Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Got a call at 5:50 in the morning from a guy near Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. Warehouse worker, shift starting at six. His 2007 Chevrolet Equinox key blade had snapped clean off inside the ignition. You could hear it in his voice, that tight, clipped way people talk when time is slipping.

I keep the van loaded and rolling early for exactly this reason. I was there in about twenty minutes.

First thing was extraction. I used a B111 Lishi pick to pull the broken blade fragment out of the lock cylinder without damaging the wafers. Then I decoded the lock right there, cut a fresh B111-PT blank, and got the PK3+ transponder chip programmed through the OBD-II port. The BCM accepted the new key on the first security relearn cycle, about ten minutes of waiting for the timer to count down.

Whole job, hands on the vehicle to keys in his hand, ran about 25 minutes. I cut him a second key for the glovebox so he would not end up in this exact spot again.

He clocked in at 6:30. A dealer would have meant a tow, a wait for parts, and a full day off the floor. He texted that afternoon to say thanks. That is the kind of call where the timing matters more than anything else.

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