2001 Hyundai Accent
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2001 Hyundai Accent Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

North Ranch is mostly driveways and quiet streets, which is exactly where I prefer to work. Plenty of room, no parking lot shuffle, and the customer can watch the whole job from a few feet away.

This one started with a guy who had been fighting his 2001 Hyundai Accent ignition for going on three weeks. Some mornings it turned first try. Other mornings he was sitting in his own driveway for five minutes, rocking the wheel, working the key back and forth, wondering if today was the day it finally locked up for good. He drove it to the Planet Fitness on Thousand Oaks Boulevard one morning, got his workout in, and came out to a key that would not turn at all. Not stiff. Just done.

A friend pointed him toward a locksmith before he called the dealer. Smart call.

When I got there, I pulled the cylinder and decoded it. Three wafers were worn down enough that the key profile wasn't reading cleanly anymore. The lock was still serviceable. I replaced the worn wafers, cut a fresh key matched to the repaired cylinder, and tested the fit through the full range of motion: accessory, on, start, back to off. No catching, no hesitation.

I showed him the old wafers before I packed up. He looked at them for a second and said something like, "That's it?" That's it. The dealer wanted to swap the whole ignition assembly. He kept every original part that still worked.

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