2013 Toyota Tacoma
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A woman in Victoria Estates in Oxnard flagged me down, basically. She'd texted through the website around noon saying her 2013 Tacoma remote had stopped working and she wasn't sure if the key itself was also bad or just the fob. She was in her driveway, which made it easy.
When I got there, she had already swapped the CR2032 herself. Good instinct, wrong result. The remote still wasn't responding and she was starting to spiral into "maybe it's the truck, not the remote."
I asked her to try the key in the ignition first. Truck started clean. So the transponder side was fine. That already cut the job in half.
The issue was the remote. She'd bought a replacement fob online a few weeks earlier thinking she'd just swap it in. The problem is the 2013 Tacoma remote doesn't self-program. It needs to be registered to the vehicle through a programming procedure. The fob she bought was sitting in the glovebox, brand new, completely useless until someone with the right equipment paired it to her truck.
I pulled out the programmer, connected through the OBD port, registered the new remote, and verified all three buttons were live. Then I checked the original fob she still had. That one re-registered without issue too, battery contacts were just slightly corroded.
She ended up with two working remotes, which she didn't expect to walk away with. The whole thing took maybe 25 minutes in her driveway. She mentioned the dealer had quoted her a wait time of several days just to get an appointment. That part didn't surprise me.
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