2009 Mitsubishi Outlander
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2009 Mitsubishi Outlander Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman working at a walk-in clinic in Lemonwood, Oxnard, called me mid-morning on a Tuesday. Her smart fob had taken a fall and the plastic housing had cracked along the back seam.

The key still worked, mostly, but the blade was rattling loose in the housing and the lock and unlock buttons had gotten unreliable. She had a shift ending in about two hours and another starting right after that.

The nearest Mitsubishi dealer from where she was sitting was a solid 35 minutes up the freeway, and she already knew from a friend that their service schedule was running days out. Towing the car there, waiting for a service window, and paying dealer rates was not something she could fit between shifts.

I pulled into the clinic parking lot about 40 minutes after she called. The cracked housing was the obvious problem, but I checked the fob internals before I did anything else. The battery contact had a slight deformation from the drop, just enough to let the CR2032 sit unevenly. I straightened it, cleaned the contacts, rehoused everything into a fresh shell, and then got into the real work: cutting a new blade to the vehicle and using my diagnostic tool through the OBD port to register the key to the body control module.

Then I walked every function. Door handles. Lock. Unlock. The other two buttons. Start. Twice, because the first time is me doing my job and the second time is her seeing it work with her own hands.

She was back inside before her break ended. Two working keys, done in the lot, for a fraction of what the dealer route would have cost her including the tow.

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