2009 Chrysler Sebring
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2009 Chrysler Sebring Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I was parked on the street near Silver Strand in Oxnard when the owner of a 2009 Sebring walked out and told me the story in one sentence: "It just stopped working and I don't know which part stopped first."

That's actually a useful starting point. She still had the key, so it wasn't an all-keys-lost job. The blade turned in the ignition but the car hesitated before catching, and the remote buttons had been flaky for about a week before that. By the time she called me, none of the six buttons were doing anything reliable.

I pulled the fob apart on the hood. The CR2032 wasn't dead, but it was low enough to cause inconsistent behavior on the remote side. Swapped it, reseated the contacts, and the lock and unlock functions came right back. That ruled out a reprogramming job on the remote.

The hesitation on start was a different conversation. I connected my tool to the OBD port, checked in with the immobilizer module, and ran through the key status. Everything looked enrolled correctly. Did three cold starts back to back, each one clean. Whatever the hesitation was, it wasn't showing up as a stored fault and it didn't repeat during testing.

I walked every button at distance before I put the tool away. Lock, unlock, and each of the remaining buttons checked from across the street. Three clean starts. That's the close-out on every job.

She mentioned the dealer had quoted her a number that made her put the phone down. She came out of this spending a fraction of that, and I was gone in under an hour.

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