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Channel Islands Harbor on a Tuesday afternoon isn't the worst place to get a job call, but the situation the owner described wasn't simple on paper.
He had tried to duplicate his 2001 Ford Focus key at a hardware store. The blank they cut looked right, the blade fit the ignition and turned, but the car would crank and immediately die. Every time. He figured the cut was off. He went back, got it recut, same result. By the time he called me he had two freshly cut keys that fit perfectly and did nothing, and his original key was getting worn enough that he wasn't sure how much longer it had.
That crank-and-stall pattern is the immobilizer talking. A hardware store cuts metal. They don't transfer the transponder chip, and on a lot of these older blanks the chip doesn't survive the copy process anyway. The new keys were mechanically fine and electronically invisible to the car.
I met him in the lot near the marina. Verified his original key still had a working chip, then used it to run the onboard relearn sequence and bring both new blanks into the system. The whole thing took about 25 minutes on-site.
He was relieved but also a little annoyed at himself for the hardware store detour. I told him it's one of the most common mistakes I see on early 2000s Ford transponder cars. The cut is only half the job.
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