2009 Kia Sedona
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2009 Kia Sedona Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman in North Ranch called me on a Tuesday morning. She'd sent her kid to school on the bus because her Sedona just sat there. Turned the key, it cranked, and then nothing. Died. She tried again a few times, same thing every time. She thought the van had a fuel problem or maybe the starter was going.

It wasn't any of that.

I asked her when she'd last had a key made. She mentioned a hardware store copy from a while back, said it looked right and had worked fine before. That was the lead I needed.

I got to North Ranch, pulled the key she was using, and compared it to a known-good blank. The cut looked close but not exact, and more importantly, that copy had no chip in it at all. The immobilizer was doing exactly what it's supposed to do: seeing an unrecognized key and shutting the engine down after crank.

I cut a proper replacement and registered the chip through the OBD port. First try after that, the Sedona fired up and stayed running. She stood there watching it idle like she was waiting for it to quit again.

The hardware store copy had probably worked intermittently before until it just stopped being recognized reliably. These things don't always fail all at once.

She mentioned she'd almost had it towed to the dealer, which would have been a whole ordeal. Getting it handled in the driveway, without a tow, for a fraction of what the dealer route would have cost, was a better morning than she expected.

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