2008 Land Rover LR2
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2008 Land Rover LR2 Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman in Mandalay Beach called on a Tuesday morning. Her 2008 LR2 had been throwing a key-not-detected warning intermittently for about two weeks, and that morning it stopped being intermittent. Fob sitting right on the center console, car completely indifferent to it.

She had already called the Land Rover dealer. They told her the vehicle would need to come in, that a replacement fob would have to be ordered, and that lead times on parts for this generation could stretch. She asked how long. They were vague about it. That's when she started looking for another option.

I pulled up to her place off the water, popped the fob housing on the tailgate of my van. CR2032 was the original battery -- you can tell by how the contacts look after years of sitting against the same cell. Swapped it, cleaned both contact points, reseated everything properly.

Walked back to the LR2. The car saw the fob before I even touched the handle.

I still ran through all five buttons and checked that the backup blade seated correctly in the housing, because a fob that just needed a battery isn't always just a battery. This one was. She'd had it in her hand the whole time thinking the key was dying.

She paid for a service call, not a replacement key. Fraction of what the dealer wanted just to look at it. That's the job I like best -- the one where the fix is boring and the owner drives away the same morning.

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