2018 GMC Yukon Xl
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2018 GMC Yukon Xl Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Sunset Hills, early Saturday. A guy calls me from the gravel lot near the boat launch outside Thousand Oaks. He'd been out since before sunrise, came back to his 2018 GMC Yukon XL, and the key was just gone. Not in his jacket, not in the boat, not in the truck bed. He'd had one key the whole time he owned the vehicle, and now it was somewhere at the bottom of a lake or lost on the dock. He said he figured he was stuck there until Monday when the dealer opened, and even then he'd need a tow.

I told him I could be there that afternoon.

When I pulled up he was sitting on his tailgate looking at his phone. I got the door open without any damage, decoded the blade cut from the lock so I had exact positions to work from, and connected through the OBD port to run the all-keys-lost sequence on the vehicle. That process clears out any previously registered fobs from the system and enrolls the new one as the primary. There's a timed step built into the sequence you can't rush, so I used that window to cut the new key blade on my machine.

By the time the programming cycle finished, the blade was ready. Tested all five buttons, walked both front door handles for touch unlock, confirmed the ignition. Truck started right there in the lot.

I cut him a second one on the spot so he wouldn't be making this same call again.

The dealer quote he'd already pulled up on his phone was over four hundred dollars, not counting the tow or the wait. We were done in under an hour, and he made it home before dark.

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