Kia Key Replacement in Phoenix

There is no more badge than a Kia to come across for our technicians in this city, and the vast majority of those requests are going to be for the same reason, because the vehicle in question was purchased as a preowned unit through a dealership or a private sale and included precisely one keyfob without mention of a second one, and the day that one key goes through a washing machine or down a storm drain the family grinds to a halt waiting for someone to show up to get their car back moving again.

Kia Models We Make Keys For

Sportage, Telluride, Sorento, Forte, K5, Soul, Seltos, Carnival, Niro, EV6, EV9 and Rio.

The PIN Your Kia Needs Before Anything Else

Kia shares the same immobilizer system platform as Hyundai, and the result of that is that there has to be a PIN code unique to your vehicle acquired before a single key is even written into it, which is something that many people come across problems with because shops do not have the proper equipment. Recent Sportages, Tellurides and Sorentos utilize proximity fobs with push button start, while the older Kia vehicles come with bladed transponder keys, and the part numbers change often enough between the different trim levels depending on how many remote features your Kia had when it was originally manufactured, so our technician is matching the fob to the vehicle build and not just the year of the vehicle listed on the registration.

What Owners of Older Kia Models Should Know

There is one piece of information that each and every owner of the Kia vehicle made between 2011 and 2021 should know instead of finding out the hard way, and that is the fact that many of those vehicles were assembled without the engine immobilizer, and that is the reason why they have been so vulnerable to thefts across all American cities. No key replacement is going to fix that problem, no key programming is either, and the only real solution lies in contacting your local dealership for the manufacturer security update. We can offer you the key side of the process, and whenever we clone a missing set of keys for one of those cars we will make sure that all of those keys are wiped from the memory of the vehicle by the time our technician leaves your location.

Tailgates, Sliding Doors and Cars Out of Rental Fleets

Telluride and Carnival keyfobs include the function for power tailgate and sliding door activation that a family relies on every day, so our technician will test every one of those buttons in detail and not just check if the doors are locking properly and declare the visit completed. Quite a few Kias in this city were originally assembled and then placed into rental fleets with only one keyfob and with no records attached to it, so ordering a spare fob early is inexpensive, and that gives us the opportunity to check your current fob for health and make sure that it does not fail you when you least expect it.

Every Kia key and fob is made, programmed and tested where your car is currently located, and at any hour of the day that you require this service. You can contact us at (602) 730-6912, and our operator will make sure that the proper part is available in the van prior to our technician setting out to you.