2016 Kia Forte
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I got a call from a guy over in the Royal/Kadota area of Simi Valley. His 2016 Forte was sitting in his driveway, and he had one working fob left. He needed a second one made because he was about to leave for a road trip and didn't want to drive out of state with a single key and no backup.
Straightforward job on paper. I pulled up, verified ownership, and got to work at the OBD port with my diagnostic tool. The 2016 Forte smart key system requires equipment to retrieve the vehicle's security PIN and then register the new fob into the system. No ignition-turn trick, no button sequence. You need the tool or you're not adding a key.
What slowed things down slightly was that his original fob was reading inconsistently on range. The new key programmed clean on the first attempt, but when I walked the lot testing both fobs together, the original was dropping out past about fifteen feet. He had no idea. He'd been living with it, probably blaming the parking lot or the weather.
I opened the original fob right there on the hood of his car. The CR2032 had a slight tilt from a previous swap, and one contact was barely kissing the battery edge. Reseated it, closed it up, walked the lot again. Both fobs hitting clean range.
He'd come out expecting to hand me the car and go back inside. Instead he watched the whole thing. The programming, the range walk, the three start cycles, the fix on the original he didn't ask for. He said his dealer would have just handed him the new key and sent him on his way.
I don't know if that's true. But I do know the testing at the end is where problems show up, and I'd rather find them in his driveway than have him discover them in Nevada.
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