2017 Chevrolet Express
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2017 Chevrolet Express REMOTE-HEAD-KEY Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A guy near the Ventura River Preserve flagged me down, in a manner of speaking. He'd found one of my GM key replacement videos on YouTube months earlier, saved my number, and when his 2017 Chevrolet Express started throwing "Service Theft Deterrent System" on the dash, he already knew the call to make.

He ran a small delivery operation out of that van. Time off the road meant money gone.

When I got there, the original remote head key was physically falling apart. The shell had cracked right along the key ring loop, and the circuit board was half-exposed. The transponder chip was still reading, but barely. One bad bump and that van was not starting again.

I cloned the PK3+ transponder onto a new ID46 chip using my VVDI Key Tool, cut a fresh B111 blade on the van's tailgate, and seated everything into a solid new shell. Then the 30-minute theft deterrent relearn through the OBD port, because the BCM needs that full timed cycle to accept the new key data on these.

Tested lock, unlock, remote start. Three clean ignition cycles. Walked the fob out to about 40 feet and confirmed range.

He watched the whole thing. Said he liked that the process looked exactly like what he'd seen on the channel. Same person, same tools, same van-side work. No waiting room, no parts counter, no back-and-forth with a service advisor. Just the job, done, for way less than the dealer wanted.

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