2015 Toyota 4runner
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2015 Toyota 4runner Remote Head Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Out in Faria Beach, the call came in around 8 in the evening. Her bag had been grabbed at a restaurant in Ventura. Keys, wallet, phone, all of it. She borrowed the server's phone to call the police, then her husband, then me.

Her 2015 4Runner was sitting in the lot with no working key. Her husband had already called the dealer. Three to five business days, tow required, rekeying recommended, total estimate well over six hundred dollars before fees.

I drove out that evening. When all keys are gone, the job is not the same as cutting a spare. Adding a spare means the car already trusts one key and you register a second alongside it. All-keys-lost means you wipe the key memory completely and start over from nothing, so the stolen key can never start the car again. I cleared the old key data through the OBD port, then registered two fresh remote head keys. After that, I decoded the lock and cut both blades on site. Both fobs were tested on every button. Both blades turned the ignition. Done before the police report came back.

She drove home that night with two working keys. The dealer wanted multiple days and a tow. The first thing I told her husband when he asked about the stolen key: the moment that memory gets wiped, the old key is just a piece of metal and plastic. It can still slide into the door lock, but the immobilizer will not let the engine fire. That is usually the thing people most need to hear after a theft.

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