2017 Volkswagen Passat
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2017 Volkswagen Passat Remote Flip Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

A home health nurse in Meiners Oaks had her only Passat key quit on her the morning of a full patient schedule. The car was sitting in her carport, completely locked out, and she was already mentally rearranging her first few visits and looking up tow companies. I told her to hold off on the tow.

I drove to her in Ojai and set up at the carport. The flip key had five buttons and the blade folded out of the housing the way they do on these. She'd already swapped the CR2032 thinking that was it, which was a reasonable first move, but the car still wouldn't recognize the fob at all.

I connected my programmer to the OBD port, pulled the immobilizer data, and enrolled a new key to the car on site. Cut the blade to match, tested the flip mechanism, walked every button, confirmed the car started clean.

She made her first appointment. The dealer quote she'd already gotten, before she called me, was for parts, programming, and a tow combined. She paid a fraction of that and never left her carport.

That's the job on most 2017 Passats. All-keys-lost, single spare, whatever you need, usually handled on site without moving the car.

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