2000 Ford Ranger
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2000 Ford Ranger Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman over in Sunset Hills called me about her 2000 Ranger. She had one key left, the original, and the plastic head was cracked almost clean through. She was nursing it carefully, afraid it was going to snap off in the ignition one morning.

She had called the dealer first. They told her to bring the truck in, said the key blank might need to be ordered, and gave her a window of a few days. She did not have a few days and did not love the idea of driving a truck with a half-broken key across town and leaving it somewhere for two days.

I came to her driveway. The original key was cracked but still functional, which mattered because with two working programmed keys you can run the built-in add-a-key sequence without any external tools. But her original was the only one she had, so I used my programming equipment instead. Cut the new key to match her ignition, ran the transponder enrollment, and tested it cold.

Then I tested the original one too, just to see how much life it had left. It still worked, but the crack was deep enough that I told her straight: that key is on borrowed time. She kept it as the backup anyway.

The whole thing took about 35 minutes in her driveway. She paid a fraction of what the dealer quoted and never had to move the truck.

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