2004 Nissan Xterra
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2004 Nissan Xterra Transponder Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Got a call from a woman in the Big Sky neighborhood of Simi Valley. She had a 2004 Xterra with one key to its name, and that key had been through it. The plastic bow was cracked almost in half, held together with electrical tape that was starting to peel. She said she had been nursing it along for months, afraid to close her hand too hard around it.

She had already called a Nissan dealer. They told her to bring the vehicle in, and that between parts, programming on CONSULT II, and labor, it would be a wait. She is a nursing student with clinical rotations, and one morning without her truck was one morning she could not afford.

I got to her apartment complex and went to work. Used my NSN14 Lishi to decode the door lock wafers directly. The 2004 Xterra runs the standard Nissan edge-cut NSN14 keyway. Once I had the cuts, I cut a fresh NI02T transponder blank on my mobile machine, then connected to the NATS module through the OBD port to register the new ID46 chip.

She stood on the breezeway watching. When the engine turned over clean with the new key, no NATS light blinking, she just let out a long breath. That was the whole reaction. Sometimes relief is quiet.

Cut, programmed, tested, and handed over on site. She kept her old taped-up key as a backup.

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