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She was at a taco stand patio in Camarillo after a long shift. Bag was gone. Someone had swept it off the table, and inside it were her keys, her wallet, and her phone. She borrowed the cashier's phone to call the police, then her sister, then me.

Her 2021 Honda Civic was sitting in the lot with no key anywhere near it. Her sister had already called the dealer. They could order a key, but it would take three to five business days, the car would have to be towed to the shop, and they were recommending a lock rekey since the stolen key could still physically open the doors. The combined estimate was not a small number.

I drove out to Camarillo that night.

All-keys-lost is a different job than adding a spare. When you add a key, the car already trusts one in its memory and you're just appending a second. AKL means clearing everything and starting from zero. I connected through the OBD port, wiped the key memory so the stolen fob could no longer start the engine, and registered two new keys fresh. Then I decoded the lock cylinder, cut the emergency blade, and tested every function on both fobs before I packed up. The police called back while I was still running the final checks.

She drove home that night. The stolen key can still slide into the door lock mechanically, but the immobilizer won't let the engine fire. That part was done. Two working keys, same parking lot, no tow, no waiting until Thursday.

The dealer number her sister had written down was sitting on the passenger seat when she drove off. She left it there.

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