2005 Toyota Matrix
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2005 Toyota Matrix
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A woman at the laundromat near Oakbrook Plaza in Thousand Oaks had a 2005 Matrix that kept stranding her. It would start fine in the morning, then refuse by evening. Crank, catch for a second, die. The security indicator on the dash would stay lit solid, which is the immobilizer saying no.
She had gotten a replacement key from another locksmith about ten days before. Worked great at first. Then the intermittent failures started.
I pulled her key and read the transponder with my VVDI2. The other shop had programmed a 4D-60 chip instead of the 4D-67 that the 2005 Matrix requires. Toyota's immobilizer system on this generation will sometimes accept a close-generation chip during initial registration, but the rolling verification the ECU runs over multiple drive cycles catches the mismatch. It is a slow rejection. You think the key is fine until it isn't.
I cut a new TOY43 blade from her door lock impressioning and programmed a correct 4D-67 transponder matched to her immobilizer ECU (board 93C56). Then I paired her GQ43VT14T remote back to the receiver so her lock and unlock buttons worked again. Whole thing took about 25 minutes on the hood of the car.
She had been carrying a second fob, a gate clicker, and an AirTag all on the same ring. I split them apart just to rule out RF interference on the remote side. Months later, still working. The difference between a key that lasts and one that quits after a week is the chip generation.
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