2000 GMC Safari
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2000 GMC Safari Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

She was closing up at a brewery in Oxnard after a bartending shift and her purse was gone. Taken from behind the bar during the rush. Keys, wallet, phone, all of it. She borrowed a coworker's phone and called the police, then her roommate, then me.

The 2000 GMC Safari was sitting in the lot with no keys at all. The roommate had already called the dealer. The dealer said they could order parts in three to five business days, the car would need to be towed in, and they strongly suggested rekeying since the stolen key could still open the doors. The combined estimate was enough to make a late-night situation feel even worse.

I got there while the police were still writing up the report. All-keys-lost on a vehicle like this is a different job than adding a spare. Adding a spare, the car already trusts an existing fob and you're just adding to its list. All-keys-lost means clearing the entire key memory so the stolen fob is dead to the car, then programming fresh from zero. I connected my tool to the OBD port, accessed the body control module, wiped the stored key data, and programmed two new fobs. Then I decoded the door lock cylinder and cut two replacement blades to match.

Both fobs tested on every button. Doors locked and unlocked from the parking lot. She drove home before the officer left.

The dealer's estimate was way more, required a tow, and had a multi-day wait built in. She didn't have any of those days to spare. The stolen fob is cleared. It won't open those doors or do anything else to that Safari.

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