2011 Mazda RX-8
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2011 Mazda RX-8
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I got a call from a preschool director over near Wagon Wheel in Oxnard. She had staff showing up at seven in the morning and parents right behind them. Her 2011 Mazda RX-8 had been giving her a key-not-detected warning all week, intermittently. Some mornings she had to hold the fob against the start button just to get the car to acknowledge it. She called the dealer. They told her four days out.
She did not have four days. She had a school to open.
I met her in the parking lot before the kids arrived. She handed me the fob and I could already see what was going on before I even opened it. The battery contact inside had a slight corrosion bloom on it, the kind that builds up slowly until one morning it just stops making clean contact. The CR2025 itself still had voltage, but the connection was unreliable.
I cleaned the contacts, seated a fresh battery correctly, and ran diagnostics through the OBD port to check how the vehicle security system was reading the fob. Everything came back clean. No registration issue, no module fault, just a contact problem. I walked every button and tested the push-button start from a normal distance, not the pressed-against-the-column workaround she had been doing.
She was locked in and rolling before the first parent pulled in. The dealer would have had her towing it in, waiting for a parts order, and coming back for a second appointment. We did it in the lot, before school started, for way less than what they quoted.
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“They responded instantly, showed up within an hour, and arrived exactly when they said they would. Made a copy and programmed a fob for my 2014 car with a worn ignition in about 15 minutes. The new key works perfectly and feels like a dealer key.”
“About 15 minutes after calling, he was already at my home. I had lost my original Ford key and he made and programmed a new one on the spot. Very fast, very professional.”
“Super fast service. About 20 minutes from the call he was already there. He had an authentic replacement on hand and made a spare key for my 2017 Nissan Rogue in about 15 minutes. Great prices, friendly, and very professional.”
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