2013 GMC Savana
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2013 GMC Savana Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A traveling nurse on a contract assignment in Carpinteria called me from a hotel lot near Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve. Her only key for a 2013 GMC Savana cargo van had snapped at the blade, right where the bow meets the shank. Classic stress fracture on the B111 blank. She had already called the dealer. They told her to tow it in, wait until the next afternoon, and quoted her a number that made her go quiet on the phone.

She found me online about twenty minutes later.

I pulled up that same night with the van. The Savana uses GM's Passlock III, so the security lives in the ignition housing, not a chip embedded in the key head. That means the replacement process is: cut a new B111-PT key to code, then run a security relearn through the OBD port so the BCM accepts the new key's resistive signature.

Cut the blank on my Triton machine in the van. Connected to the OBD port, ran the relearn cycle on the body control module. The Savana's relearn has a timed 10-minute security countdown built into the procedure, so there is a short wait no matter who does it.

She sat in the passenger seat scrolling her phone the whole time. When the engine turned over clean, she just nodded like she already knew it would work. Whole thing done on site for a fraction of what the dealer wanted, no tow, no next-day wait.

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