2002 Ford Escape
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County
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2002 Ford Escape
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2002 Ford Escape Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
Got a call from Midtown in Ventura, a guy standing next to a first-gen Escape in a parking lot off Main. Only key he ever had for the car just snapped clean at the neck, right where the blade meets the plastic head. Half the key was in his hand, the other half still sitting in the ignition cylinder.
He had already tried pulling it with needle-nose pliers and pushed it deeper.
I extracted the broken blade fragment first. Took a minute because of how far he'd shoved it in. Once it was out, I decoded the lock wafers on the driver door to get the original cut depths, then cut a fresh H74 blank to factory spec on my mobile machine.
Then the part that matters on these older PATS trucks. I connected my programmer to the OBD-II port under the dash, read the PATS module, and ran the key learn procedure. The 2002 Escape uses the 4C fixed-code transponder, so once the new chip ID gets written into the PCM's key memory, it sticks. No rolling codes, no token nonsense.
After programming I did three cold starts in a row. Turned it off, waited, turned it on. Off, waited, on. The theft light on the dash should blink once and go out each time, and it did.
He kept looking at the old broken key like it owed him money. I told him to keep it as a reminder to get a spare cut before the next one breaks.
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