2012 Ford Focus
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2012 Ford Focus Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A guy from College Estates called me on a Saturday afternoon. He had been at the beach, his only key was gone, and his 2012 Focus was sitting in the parking lot going nowhere.

He had already done the mental math: tow truck, dealer service department on Monday, probably two days without the car. He asked me if I could actually do anything that same day. I told him I could be there within the hour.

When I pulled up he was still holding out hope the key would turn up. It did not.

I started by picking the door open and decoding the lock to get the exact cut I needed. Cut a fresh blade to match, verified it in the door and the ignition. Then I connected through the OBD port and ran the all-keys-lost sequence through the immobilizer. That process clears every previously enrolled key from the car's memory and brings in the new fob as the primary. There is a timed step in that sequence that you just have to wait out. Some guys rush it. I do not.

The fob fired the car up on the first try. I cut him a second key right there so he would not be making this same call again.

He mentioned what the dealer had quoted him once for a single key. It was a lot. He said this was a fraction of that, done at the car, on a Saturday, at the beach. That part never gets old.

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