Kia Key Replacement in Boston

Kia has grown into one of the badges our technicians see most across this city, and the great majority of those calls follow the same story, because the car was bought used from a dealer or a private seller who handed over exactly one fob and mentioned nothing about a second, and the day that single fob goes into a washing machine or down a storm drain the whole household stops moving until somebody comes out to it.

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 builds on the same immobilizer architecture that Hyundai uses, which means a PIN belonging to your particular vehicle has to be obtained before a single key can be written into it, and that step is where a great many people run into trouble with shops that do not carry the right equipment. Recent Sportages, Tellurides and Sorentos run proximity fobs with push button start, older cars use bladed transponder keys, and the part numbers move around a good deal between trim levels depending on which remote functions your car left the factory with, so our technician matches the fob to the build rather than simply to the year on the registration.

What Owners of Older Kia Models Should Know

There is one piece of information that every owner of a Kia built between 2011 and 2021 deserves to hear plainly rather than to discover the hard way, which is that a number of models from those years were assembled without an engine immobilizer at all, and that single omission is the reason they became such a heavy theft target across American cities. No replacement key closes that gap, no key service can close it for you either, and the only real answer is to ask a dealer about the manufacturer security update. What we can do is the key side of it, and on every job where keys have gone missing those keys are wiped from the memory of the car before our technician leaves.

Tailgates, Sliding Doors and Cars Out of Rental Fleets

Telluride and Carnival fobs carry power tailgate and sliding door functions that a family leans on every single day of the week, and our technician works through each of those buttons rather than checking that the doors lock and calling the visit finished. A great many Kias on the road here also came out of rental fleets with one fob and no history behind them, so having a spare made early is cheap, and it gives us the chance to confirm that the fob you already carry is healthy before it fails on you at an awkward moment.

Every Kia key and fob is cut, programmed and tested at the place where your car is parked, at whatever hour you happen to need it. Call (781) 928-8161 and our operator will confirm the correct part is in the van before a technician sets off to you.