1999 Lexus GS
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

1999 Lexus GS Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

She was at a wine bar on the east end of Montecito, up in the Eucalyptus Hill area, when someone lifted her clutch purse right off the back of her chair. Keys, cards, ID, everything. She borrowed a phone and made three calls in order: police, husband, me.

By the time I arrived, her 1999 Lexus GS had been sitting in the lot for about two hours. The husband had already called the dealer. The dealer told him the car would need to be towed in, that the work would take four to five business days, and that they wanted to reprogram the entire security system from scratch. The estimate was not small.

All-keys-lost after a confirmed theft is a specific situation. The priority is making the stolen fob electronically useless to the car before anything else. I connected my diagnostic equipment to the OBD port, accessed the immobilizer, cleared the existing key data, and registered two new remote head keys. Then I decoded the lock cylinder and cut both blades to match. I ran every function on both fobs before I considered the job done.

She drove home that night. The dealer's version of this story involved a tow truck and a Thursday at the earliest. The stolen fob is dead to that car now, which was really the whole point.

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