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

2000 GMC Safari Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

She was closing up at the brewery near Centennial Plaza in Oxnard after a bartending shift, and her purse was gone. Someone lifted it from behind the bar during the Friday rush. Car keys, wallet, phone, all of it.

She borrowed a coworker's phone. Called the police first, then her roommate, then me.

Her 2000 GMC Safari was sitting in the brewery lot with zero keys. The roommate had already called the dealer. Their answer: order a new KOBUT1BT remote, three to five business days, tow the van in, and they recommended rekeying the doors and ignition since the stolen key could still physically open and start the Safari. The combined wait and cost were not what she wanted to hear that night.

I got out there while the police were still taking her statement. All-keys-lost is a different process than adding a spare. When you add a key, the system already trusts an existing one and piggybacks the new fob onto the approved list. AKL means I wipe the entire key memory through the body control module so the stolen key is dead to the van. On the Safari, the BCM is the Delphi unit behind the driver's kick panel. I accessed it with my IM608, cleared the old passlock data, then reset the theft deterrent learn mode, that ten-minute relearn cycle GM is famous for.

Cut two new keys using my Lishi GM39 pick and decoder on the door, programmed both KOBUT1BT remotes, and tested all four buttons on each: lock, unlock, panic, rear hatch. She drove home that night. The stolen key and fob are worthless to the van now.

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