1996 Honda Civic
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

1996 Honda Civic Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Got a call around 3pm from a guy near Channel Islands National Park Visitor Center in Oxnard. Line cook, shift starting at 4, and his 1996 Civic had locked him out. You could hear the kitchen noise behind whoever was calling him back, and the stress was real. I told him twenty minutes.

Pulled up and the car was sitting in the lot, windows up, key visible on the seat. Classic. I grabbed my HON66 Lishi and picked the door lock. No drilling, no damage, just the decode and turn.

Once inside, the remote was the real problem. His A269ZUA101 fob was unresponsive. Cracked it open and the CR2025 was corroded on one terminal, barely making contact. Swapped in a fresh cell, cleaned the board contacts, and re-synced the remote to the 38385-S04-A01 receiver using the manual learn procedure: key on, lock button held, cycle ignition, confirm with a lock-unlock test. All four buttons came back. Lock, unlock, panic, trunk.

Cut him a spare HD103 blade too, because a 1996 Civic has no transponder to worry about. Just a clean mechanical cut and it starts the car. Handed it to him for the glovebox.

He clocked in at 4:10. The dealer would have meant a tow, a wait, and a missed shift he could not afford. He texted me that night to say thanks. That is the kind of call where timing actually matters.

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