2018 Kia Soul
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County
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I was parked on Central Avenue in Downtown Fillmore when this one came in. A guy who stocks shelves at the warehouse store nearby had a Soul that was doing something I've seen before but customers never expect: the fob would work in the morning and go dark by evening.
He'd already had another locksmith program a key for him about ten days before. The car started fine for a little while, then the push-to-start would flash a key-not-detected warning, seemingly at random. He figured the car had developed some electrical issue and was dreading the diagnostic bill.
It wasn't electrical.
I pulled out my programmer and read the data off the key the previous locksmith had made. The fob remote functions were working because the RF side had been paired correctly - that's why it locked and unlocked fine. But the transponder side had been programmed with the wrong chip generation. On this system, a close-but-wrong chip can pass initial startup checks and then fail once the vehicle runs deeper verification over several drive cycles. That's exactly the pattern he described: works at first, fails later.
I programmed a new key using the correct chip generation, re-enrolled it through the diagnostic port, and retested across every function before I packed up. While I had the fob apart I also swapped the CR2032, which was reading low - that kind of marginal battery doesn't help detection range on days when the system is already on the edge.
He's been driving it for months without a hiccup. The dealer quote he'd gotten earlier was well over double what he paid me, and he wouldn't have gotten an appointment for two weeks. I was there in under an hour.
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