2019 Ford Transit Connect
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2019 Ford Transit Connect Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I was parked on Hollister Avenue one morning when a call came in from a woman on the Westside. Her 2019 Transit Connect, the one she uses for hauling supplies for her small business, had a fob that stopped unlocking the doors overnight.

It would still start the car if she got inside using the mechanical backup blade, but the door handles wouldn't respond to touch and the lock and unlock buttons were doing nothing.

She had already replaced the battery herself. CR2032, she said. I asked her to read the number off the old one she'd pulled out.

CR2450.

That was the whole story right there. The CR2032 is thinner and when you drop it in, it sits loose, makes poor contact, and the fob acts half-dead because it essentially is. She'd put a fresh cell in and made things worse.

I drove over, popped the fob, seated a correct CR2450, and cleaned the contacts while I had it open. Walked every button. Touch unlock on both handles, lock, unlock, the other two buttons. All of it working before I was back in my van.

She mentioned the dealer had been her backup plan. She'd called them that morning and they were already talking about running diagnostics, which means scheduling, a loaner conversation, and a bill that reflects none of the actual problem. I was there and done in under twenty minutes. She had a pile of deliveries to get to and she made every one of them.

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