2018 Ford Transit Connect
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2018 Ford Transit Connect Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I was already parked near Downtown Santa Barbara on a Friday night, finishing up a different call, when these two rang me from a movie theater parking lot. They'd come out after the show and their 2018 Transit Connect just sat there. The fob wasn't responding, the doors weren't unlocking remotely, and they'd never heard of the mechanical backup entry built into the fob. They assumed the car was dead and were already looking at rideshares and leaving it overnight.

I told them to hold on and drove over.

The van was fine. The fob battery was gone, fully drained. CR2032s on these don't always give you a slow fade. Sometimes they just stop. I popped in a fresh one from my stock, and the remote came right back. But the fob had lost its pairing from sitting so long on a dead cell, so I ran the programming sequence on-site with my equipment to get it enrolled back with the vehicle.

First try, clean start. They drove home before the parking garage closed.

The dealer conversation came up on its own. They'd called the Ford dealer before they called me, got a voicemail, and figured they were looking at Monday morning at best. When everything you need is already in the van, a Friday night call is just another call.

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