2004 Mazda 6
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2004 Mazda 6 Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from Upper Village in Montecito on a Tuesday morning. A homeowner had pulled her only key out of her bag and found the bow cracked through, the blade still usable but the transponder portion of the key head damaged. She had managed to start the car once that morning, babying it in, and then it died in the driveway. The car would crank but not catch.

She had already called the dealer. They told her to have it towed in, that they would need to order a key, and she was looking at waiting a few days. She found me instead.

I was in Upper Village inside 30 minutes. The Mazda 6 ignition cylinder on these is cooperative once you know it, and getting into the car was not the issue. The issue was that her existing key, even with the damaged head, still needed to be used as a reference during programming since we were not doing an all-keys-lost procedure. We worked through that, got the new key cut to match her lock, ran the programming sequence through the OBD port, and verified the transponder was enrolling correctly.

First start attempt, the car lit right up. I had her try it herself twice before I packed up.

She mentioned the dealer quote almost as a footnote. Tow, key, labor, days of waiting. What she actually paid was a fraction of that, and she drove the car that same morning.

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