2001 Nissan Sentra
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2001 Nissan Sentra Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Got a call from a guy in Ojai, over near Bart's Books, around 9 at night. His 2001 Sentra was sitting in the driveway and his only key had snapped right at the bow, the plastic head cracked and the blade separated clean from the transponder chip inside. He had the two pieces in a sandwich bag.

He had already called a dealer. They told him to tow it in, order a new key, and come back in three to five business days for cutting and programming. He asked if there was another way and somebody pointed him to me.

I got there in about 40 minutes. The broken key still had the PCF7936 chip intact inside the cracked housing, which was good news but did not matter for what I needed to do. I cut a fresh NSN14 blade on my mobile unit, pressed a new ID46 transponder into the key head, and connected to the OBD-II port with my programmer to register the chip to his NATS5 immobilizer module. The whole job, from pulling up to handing him a working key, was maybe 20 minutes.

He turned it over in his hand a couple times, stuck it in the ignition, and the car fired right up. Security light went solid and off, just like it should. He kept the broken pieces in the sandwich bag. Not sure why. People do that.

Saved him the tow, saved him the wait, saved him a good chunk over what the dealer quoted.

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