2019 Volvo Xc60
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2019 Volvo Xc60 Smart Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

I got a call from a woman in Newbury Park, over near the Wendy Drive side of the neighborhood. She was in the Anthropologie parking lot in Thousand Oaks and her spare key had stopped working. Not the key she used every day, the backup she'd kept in her purse. She wanted a new spare before anything happened to the primary, which was smart thinking.

She'd already been to the Volvo dealer website. The site pointed her toward the service department. She called the dealer. They told her the key needed to be ordered, that it was a dealer-only item, and that she should plan on a few days at minimum. Her husband had read something similar on a forum. So she assumed that was just the reality of owning this car.

I was in Thousand Oaks already when she called. I told her I could be there in under twenty minutes.

When I pulled up, she was sitting on a bench outside the store, half-expecting me to tell her the same thing the dealer did. I set up at the back of my van, pulled the right key blank for her XC60, and connected to the OBD port. The Central Electronics Module enrollment on these goes through the diagnostic port. The process is methodical, not fast, but it's not a dealer-exclusive procedure either.

I programmed the new fob, tested all four buttons, walked the door handles, and confirmed the push-button start picked up the key from inside the cabin and through the glass. Total time at the car, about forty minutes including the key cut.

She mentioned what the dealer had quoted. I don't make a big deal of the comparison. The work speaks for itself.

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