2015 Kia RIO
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Over near Oxnard Auto Center, a guy flagged me down in a mosque parking lot. His 2015 Kia Rio would crank for about two seconds and then cut out. Classic immobilizer rejection. He told me another locksmith had already come out, charged him, and left saying the IMMO module on the car was bad.
The module was fine.
What happened was the first tech didn't complete the full key learning sequence. Kia's immobilizer on these third-gen Rios (UB platform, 2012 to 2017) needs a 6-digit PIN pulled by VIN and a specific registration flow through OBD. If you rush it or drop out mid-process, the ECU accepts the transponder data into temporary memory but never writes it to the EEPROM permanently. So the car sees the key for a moment, fires the injectors, then the body control module on the 95400 board kills fuel because the handshake didn't actually stick.
I used my HY22 Lishi to verify the blade cut was clean, then connected my IM608 through the OBD port. Cleared the partial key data from the failed attempt, pulled the correct PIN, and ran a clean IMMO learn from scratch. Waited for the full write confirmation on screen before touching anything else.
His SY5XMFNA04 fob came back to life. All four buttons, clean push-button start, no dash warnings. I showed him the confirmation screen so he could see it was written for real this time.
He had already paid someone else for a job that was never finished. At least this time it was done right, on site, for way less than the dealer would have quoted.
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