2007 Toyota Highlander
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2007 Toyota Highlander Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A woman called me from the Costco parking lot in the Las Positas area of Santa Barbara. She'd had her 2007 Highlander for a few years, always just one key, and that morning the fob stopped responding.

Doors wouldn't unlock from the handle, and when she finally got in with the emergency insert blade, a key-not-detected warning came up on the dash. She'd already called the dealer. They told her to have it towed in because they couldn't guarantee same-day service, and the estimate they gave her was enough that she went looking for another option.

I pulled up about twenty minutes after she called. The fob battery was the obvious first check. It was dead, not just weak. Swapped in a fresh CR1632, seated it correctly, and the fob came right back. Touch unlock on the door handle worked. All three buttons responded. The warning cleared.

That was the whole job. But I still walked every door, tested the insert blade in the ignition, confirmed the immobilizer was seeing the key. She watched the whole thing, which I always prefer. When something's wrong, you want the owner to see exactly what got fixed and why.

She mentioned the dealer quote on the way out. I told her what she paid me was a fraction of what they wanted. She laughed and said she wished she'd known there was a mobile option before she spent the morning stressed out in a parking lot.

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