02/07/2025
Today a customer called us and asked us to “reprogram” a key to their 2008 Honda Accord because the they replaced the steering column. After asking a few questions we let the customer know that the key that came with their used steering column could not be “reprogrammed” to their vehicle. We told them not to fear that we could come on site, provide them with a new key, and program this new key to their vehicle. We arrived on site, cut a new key, and attempted to program it. The key would not program and after a few minutes of investigation and scanning the vehicle, we found that the Immobilizer Ring on the replacement steering column was not the correct one for their vehicle. We removed the Immobilizer Ring from the old steering column and installed it on the new steering column. After this we were able to successfully program our new key to the vehicle. The moral of this story is to always check the part numbers on your replacement parts. Sometimes programming a key isn’t straightforward.