2003 Ford F-250
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2003 Ford F-250 Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional
Got a call from a guy near Ventura County Medical Center. His 2003 F-250 just quit on him in the parking lot. Key turned, engine cranked, the theft light on the dash blinked steady, and nothing else happened. He tried his spare key. Same thing.
He had been to a hardware store earlier that week and had a copy made of his key. The copy turned the ignition fine, mechanically it was a clean cut, but whoever made it used a blank metal key with no transponder chip inside. That's just a piece of brass to a PATS-equipped truck. But here's the part that got him: he said after using the blank copy a few times, his original keys stopped working too. What actually happened was a separate issue. His original H72-PT key had a weak transponder, and the transceiver module around the ignition cylinder was intermittently failing to read it.
I pulled up to the parking lot, tested the PATS with my diagnostic tool through the OBD-II port, and got DTC B1681, which is a PATS transceiver signal not received. The transceiver ring around the ignition cylinder was barely reading anything. I replaced it, programmed two fresh H72-PT transponder keys with the 4C chip, and ran the PATS two-key learning procedure on site.
Truck fired right up. He thought the engine was dying. It was a security antenna the size of a bracelet.
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