1996 Pontiac Bonneville
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1996 Pontiac Bonneville Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I was out in East Simi Valley on a Tuesday afternoon, parked in a driveway off a quiet street near the Ronald Reagan library side of the neighborhood. The owner of a 1996 Bonneville had been hand-unlocking the car for two weeks because the remote had just quietly stopped working one day. He figured the fob was done and had already started calling dealers.

He told me the dealer quoted him a number that made him pause. Not just the remote itself, but their programming fee on top, and the fact that he would have had to drive or tow the car there to get it done.

I popped the back of the fob right there in the driveway. The CR2032 inside looked original, which on a car from 1996 means it could have been sitting in there for years, especially if someone swapped the fob from another car without replacing the cell. Voltage was low enough to explain everything.

Fresh battery, ran the programming sequence to make sure the remote was properly synced to the car's receiver, tested every button standing at each door. Lock, unlock, all four functions, confirmed before I put my tools away.

He watched the whole thing. Took about twenty minutes. He had been putting off dealing with it because he assumed it was going to be a whole ordeal involving a tow and a service department waiting room. It was neither of those things.

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