2020 Dodge Durango
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

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He flew into Oxnard on a Monday morning, had a rental car lined up, but his own 2020 Durango was sitting in a parking structure near The Collection where his wife had left it for him to pick up. First meeting was at nine. It was six-thirty.

The fob was dead. Not weak - completely dead. He pressed the start button, nothing happened. Pressed it again, same silence. He texted me at six forty-two asking if I could come out.

I was there before eight. The fix for getting in was the emergency blade built into the fob body - there's a mechanical slot on the door handle that most people have never used because they've never needed it. He watched me do it and said he didn't even know that was there.

Once inside, I held the fob to the start button to wake up the system on backup signal and got the truck running long enough to confirm both his programmed keys were still enrolled and healthy. Nothing had dropped out of memory. The whole problem was a CR2032 that had finally given up.

Swapped the battery, tested every button, walked the door handles, confirmed the start button was reading the fob at normal range again. Done.

He mentioned the dealer had been his first call. Thursday was the earliest they could see him. He had a meeting in two hours. I'll let you do the math on how that would have gone. He made it to his meeting, and I was back on the road before most people had finished their coffee.

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