2011 Kia Forte
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2011 Kia Forte
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I got a call from a rideshare driver at the brake shop near Mesa neighborhood. He'd already gotten burned. He called one of those $49 Google ads for his 2011 Kia Forte, the locksmith showed up, charged $420, and the key only half worked. It would lock and unlock from the remote but the dash kept flashing "key not detected" when he tried to start. That's the classic sign the RF side is fine but the immobilizer pairing isn't. He found me through Google Guaranteed and asked how to verify I was legit. Fair question.
I gave him my BSIS license number right on the phone, LCO#6792. He looked it up on the state website while we were still talking. I'm also NASTF certified, which gives me access to Kia/Hyundai's security gateway validation data that unlicensed operators can't get. I told him I'd fix what the other locksmith messed up.
I used my Smart Pro to run the full immobilizer registration on his fob, not just the remote pairing. His smart key, FCC ID SY5HMFNA04, came back with all 4 buttons working plus a clean push-to-start. It came out to 95, exactly what I quoted. Dealer wanted 200 for the same job.
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