2001 Ford F-250
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2001 Ford F-250 Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a guy out in East Ventura who had lost his only key to his 2001 F-250. Not misplaced, actually lost. He had been hauling stuff all weekend and figured it fell out somewhere along the way. He tore the cab apart, checked his yard, checked the bed. Nothing.

He called the dealer first. They told him to tow it in and plan on waiting until at least the next business day. He was not interested in paying a tow bill on top of whatever they were going to quote him, so he looked up mobile locksmiths and found me.

I pulled up to his driveway that same afternoon. The truck was locked and there was no key to decode, so I got into the door mechanically, then decoded the lock cylinder to get the correct cut. I cut the blade to match, then connected through the OBD port and ran the all-keys-lost procedure through the immobilizer system. That clears every previously enrolled key from the truck's memory and teaches the new one as the primary. The key started the truck on the first crank.

I cut him a second one right there so he would not be making this same call again. The whole thing was done in about 45 minutes. He said the dealer quote alone, before the tow, was already more than what he paid me for everything combined.

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