2005 Hyundai Elantra
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2005 Hyundai Elantra Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from someone up in the Hillsides in Ventura. He'd already paid another locksmith to handle his 2005 Elantra fob, and something had gone sideways. The doors would lock but unlock was hit or miss, and the third button did nothing at all. He'd been dealing with it for two weeks before he decided to find someone else.

He asked me on the phone how he could know I was legitimate. Fair question given what he'd already been through. I gave him my BSIS license number right there, told him to look it up on the state site while we were talking. He did. That seemed to settle it.

When I got to him, I opened the fob and checked the CR2032 first. Battery was fine. The issue was in how the remote had been paired to the car. The previous guy had gotten partway through the process and left it in a half-registered state, which explains why some functions responded and others did not. I ran the full programming sequence, all three buttons came back clean, lock and unlock both responding from a normal distance.

The dealer quote he had was a good chunk more than what he paid me. He mentioned it almost like an afterthought. Mostly he just wanted the thing to work.

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