2003 Toyota Highlander
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2003 Toyota Highlander Remote Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a guy up on the Riviera in Santa Barbara, one of those streets where the houses stack up the hillside and parking is whatever flat spot you can find. His 2003 Highlander was sitting in his narrow driveway. He'd lost his only key, wasn't sure if it was stolen or just gone, and had been putting off dealing with it for about a week. He'd been borrowing his partner's car to get around. Finally called me.

He'd looked up the dealer. They wanted him to tow it in, leave it for a day or two, and the quote he got over the phone was not a small number. He asked me if that was really the only way.

I told him to stay put.

I pulled up to his driveway off one of the winding Riviera roads, set up at the front of the Highlander, and connected to the OBD port. The all-keys-lost procedure on these early 2000s Toyotas is a known process when you have the right equipment. The tool reads the immobilizer data, works through the security handshake, and registers the new key from scratch. Cut the blade to match the door lock, program the transponder and the remote functions together, and test everything before I pack up.

Start to finish, maybe 45 minutes. He watched from his front step with a coffee.

The dealer would have been a tow plus a wait plus a quote that made him wince. He saved a good chunk, and he didn't have to leave his car anywhere.

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