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Saturday night near Five Points Shopping Center in Oxnard, and I get a call from a couple sitting outside a sushi place. Their 2010 Kia Rio just cranks and cranks but won't fire. The anti-theft light on the dash is glowing solid instead of blinking and going out like it should.
The husband tells me the key has been "feeling weird in the ignition" for a couple weeks. Turns out the plastic bow had cracked right near the base and the transponder chip inside shifted just enough that the antenna ring around the ignition cylinder couldn't get a clean read. Some days it worked. Tonight it didn't.
I pulled my VVDI Key Tool and a fresh G0001-G2500 blank from the van. Cut the HY20 profile to match the original, cloned the ID46 chip, and slid it into the cylinder. Engine caught on the first turn. The whole thing took maybe twenty minutes.
The wife picked up the cracked old key off the hood and just looked at it, like she was trying to figure out how something that small had ruined their night. I told her the chip inside is about the size of a grain of rice. She dropped it in her purse anyway.
They drove home. The dealer would have meant a tow and a wait until Monday, for way more than what this cost them on a Saturday night.
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