2011 Ford Expedition
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2011 Ford Expedition Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A guy near Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura called me after his spare key stopped turning over the engine. He had already called the Ford dealer. They told him to tow it in, and the wait for an appointment was over a week out. He figured that was just how it worked now.

I told him I could be there in about 20 minutes.

At his apartment complex I pulled out my HU101 Lishi and decoded his door lock right at the driver's side. Ten wafer positions, read one by one, written down on the back of a receipt. He watched the whole thing from about two feet away, arms crossed, not saying much.

I cut the blade on the 164-R8000 blank, then connected to the OBD-II port for the PATS programming. The 2011 Expedition uses the 80-bit protocol, so there's a timed security access window the tool has to complete before the new transponder registers. Once it cleared, I cycled the ignition and the engine fired clean. Tested all five buttons on the remote head: lock, unlock, trunk, panic, remote start.

Then I showed him the wafer positions inside the lock cylinder so he could see why a hardware store copy would never talk to his PATS module. He just nodded and said he wished he had called me first.

The whole thing took about 35 minutes. He never left his parking spot.

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