2000 Dodge Durango
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2000 Dodge Durango Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A pest control company owner over on Thompson Boulevard in Ventura called me about his fleet. Three 2000 Dodge Durangos, all running the GQ43VT9T remote head key with the three-button setup. His techs had been swapping keys between trucks and losing track of which one belonged to which vehicle. He said he was burning twenty minutes every morning just sorting it out before anyone could leave on a route.

He had already called the dealer. They wanted each truck brought in separately, and the quote per key was enough to make him put it off for months. Three tows or three half-days with a tech driving trucks across town instead of working.

I pulled into his yard before his crew showed up. Cut three CY24 blades on site, one per truck. Each key got a fresh transponder chip registered to that specific vehicle's SKIM module through the OBD port. The SKIM on the 2000 Durango stores up to eight key IDs, so adding a new one with a working key present is clean and quick. Then I programmed each GQ43VT9T remote, cycled lock, unlock, and panic on all three, and confirmed every transponder started only its own truck.

Three trucks, three keys, one visit, done before the first route rolled out. He stopped losing mornings that same week. The whole thing cost him a fraction of what the dealer wanted, and nobody had to leave the yard.

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