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A vet assistant finishing a late shift in Oxnard walked out to the employee lot around 10 at night and her flip key just stopped turning. Not stiff. Not grinding. Just stopped, like the cylinder forgot what a key was supposed to do.
She'd already tried the spare and got the same result, which told me something useful before I even arrived. When two keys fail the same way in the same cylinder, the cylinder is the suspect, not the keys.
I met her in that lot before 11. First thing I did was confirm the immobilizer side was healthy through the OBD port. No faults, no lost synchronization, the transponder was still recognized. That narrowed it down fast. This was purely mechanical: a jammed wafer inside the ignition cylinder binding under load. The kind of thing that happens quietly over years of use and then announces itself all at once on a Tuesday night in a dark parking lot.
I freed the cylinder, cleaned the binding wafer, and cut a fresh blade from a full decode to replace her worn original. The blade profile was rounded enough that it had probably been coaxing that wafer for months. With a clean cut and a freed cylinder, the flip key turned smooth. Tested the remote functions too. Everything worked.
She was on the road in under 40 minutes. The dealer couldn't have seen her until later in the week, and the job would have cost a good chunk more. Nobody had to leave a car in a dark lot overnight.
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