2009 Toyota Avalon
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2009 Toyota Avalon Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A medical office building in Nyeland Acres in Oxnard is not a place where anyone has two hours to spare. I got a call mid-morning from someone between appointments whose fob had taken a hard drop in the parking garage. The shell cracked, the emergency insert blade was rattling loose, and the touch-unlock on the driver door had stopped responding.

She had already called the dealer. They wanted her to schedule an appointment, get the car there somehow, and plan on most of a day. That was not happening with a waiting room full of patients.

I drove to the garage during her lunch break. I opened the fob on the trunk lid, checked the battery contact and the blade housing, and assessed what had actually broken versus what just looked bad. The CR1632 had shifted when the shell cracked and one of the contact tabs had a slight bend from the impact. Straightened the tab, reseated the battery, and snapped a replacement shell around it.

Then I walked every function before declaring anything done: touch-unlock on both door handles, the lock and unlock buttons, the other two buttons, and the emergency insert blade in the door cylinder to make sure the cut was still clean and the blade had not taken any damage from rattling loose.

She was back inside before her first afternoon patient. Her car never left the spot. The dealer comparison came up almost as an afterthought when she asked what it would have cost to go that route. I told her to call them and ask. She already had her answer.

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