I Called Toyota to See How Much It Would Cost To Get a New Key Fob For My Corolla, They Told Me $1,000. I Had My Dad Call and the Price Was Suddenly $250

Local Toyota dealership suggested replacing brake parts totally $1000+.
Local automotive repair center refuted such claims....been doing business with the local shop ever since.

Why not order one for $19.95 via the Internet, program (aka "marry it to the vehicle") yourself, and then go pay $2.50 at a real hardware store to have the blank cut?

I had a 2013 Audi A4 with only one key fob. Local Audi dealer wanted $800 to provide a new one. Was told it is even more if both fobs are lost.

Found a local guy that met me in the Target parking lot. $450 for the replacement fob. Dealer is a last resort.

I lost my Corolla key for, called 4 different Toyota dealers and all wanted between $399-500. I'm a guy. Go figure...

My rule is to avoid dealers whenever possible - be it Toyota, Ford, Honda, Subaru, Volkswagen, whatever. Generally speaking, they are overpriced, and anxious to charge you whatever they think they can get away with. The last time I needed a new smart key for my Highlander, I went to a reliable locksmith for it. Price was about $250 - no curve balls. I have a reliable auto shop for maintenance and repairs I have been with for 17 years. They know me, and I know them. Dealers? Not so much.

Yikes! My wife was a lifelong Toyota fan, but happily never lost her key fob.

Out of curiosity, I checked on the cost of a new key card or fob for her Tesla Model 3. It's $175 for a vehicle-shaped fob, $20 for a key card, and $0 for a key app on her phone. Simply pair up to 19 fobs, cards, or apps with the vehicle using the owner's Tesla app.

I think Toyota should take this approach as well. It's simpler and a LOT cheaper than getting a dealership involved.

My 2010 Honda Civic was $250 for the key and $250 for programming

I would have charged her $2500.
Woulda charged her dad $750.

People are stupid and they deserve to be taken advantage of because of it.

It's no different than survival of the fittest in the wild. Darwinism sucks but it's the facts of life.

Dad should take the dealer to small claims court for $1000. I mean it's only fair right. If it's okay for a dealership to rip people off someone should discourage this behavior. In addition this dealer should be reported to the better business bureau. The key blanks with key fob for a late model Corrola are only $20 on Ebay.

Please realize the average retail parts counter person is a low paid and pretty under informed employee. I don't think this is about sexism or anything other than an undertrained person who just wants to throw a price out there to get the person off the phone as quick as possible and get back to scrolling on their phone. Source: have worked dealer parts and service for 30 years.

I was robbed and car jacked at gun point, the criminals caused $15-16k in damage to my car before it was recovered. Those responsible took my keys out of my hand and drove off in my car (fairly new Honda Accord). The local Honda dealership (and my insurance company) recommended that my car be rekeyed with a new key fob but also, re-coring driver/passenger door, glove box and trunk as well. The "Driver 1" key fob was $150 to replace, and doing what's called "All Keys Lost" reprogramming was another $180 (to push a few buttons on a tablet hooked up to an OBD sensor). The total cost quoted to me to completely "re-key" my car so the thieves couldn't come back and just steal it again was definitely close to $1,000. On top of the 3-6 month back order for the Driver 1 key fob. So while I have a hard time taking dealers at their word, it's not completely unreasonable to be quoted $1000 for that. I'm guessing like another commenter, that the dealership person responding either didn't care to provide quality service or was not properly trained. On my first visit to get my car rekeyed the Service Advisor told me I needed to order like 4 or 5 things and when I walked into the parts department, I told the guy why I needed to order the parts and he looked at the sheet I was given, smirked, laughed and crossed out 3 items on the list and said order the Driver 1 key fob and it comes with the new key lock cores and the laser cut factory keys to boot. Granted not all reps that work at dealerships are fully knowledgeable and also filled with integrity, but there are good dealer reps out there. Just my two cents on the topic. I don't think the price quoted/received was based on the customer's gender. That's a pretty negative outlook, I chalk up the basis of this article more to a poorly trained/underpaid service advisors/parts reps. When I got my car re-keyed nearly every quote I got was around $1000-$1200 OTD pricing. Source: former Acura sales consultant.

I also have a complaint about my toyota tacoma 2020, I took it to hammer toyota dealer because all the lights on my dashboard came on after I had gone to the colorado river and used my 4×4 to get out of the edge of the river after launching my jet ski I went to the dealer at hammer toyota they kept it for about 2 days they did an inspection on it and said no visual damage was done, so I pick it up because I needed it to use it and drove it for about 30 miles when I was advice that the truck was dropping alot of oil thru the back and my tail gate was cover in oil, so I took it back to dealer and it turn out they had inspected the differential and they forgot to put back the sensor with the plug on back, so my differential had lost all the oil on it, so I asked them to just fix the problem and that's it, they took it, told me not to worry, I got it back 2-3 days they said they re-secured sensor, clean affected area, vehicle is operating as designed, so I took it drove it off the lot and the truck was making some noise in the back getting home the rear differential lock and i couldn't make the turns because the back tires drag I took it back they kept it for about a week and they said I had a bad rear differential and that I needed to replace it, I said that they ruin my differential but didn't want to accept responsibility instead they charge me $700.00 dollars for the diagnosed, any help please, I have all the receipt.

I found a new key fob for my 2015 Elantra would be almost $400. I eventually found I could order a fob at Batteries Plus for about 1/2 that and they were able to program my old and new fob for that price.

" find out what she did when she confronted the manager"

Reads the whole story...and you fail to say what the dealership said when confronted.

Local Honda dealer has tried to overcharge mother in law for Honda Civic maintenance. She came back with a $2k estimate of urgent repairs after going in for a simple oil change. When I drove the car back to the dealership lots of back pedaling and we don't know who gave the estimate. I mentioned using they could use the computer to track down the employee that hates women. When that wasn't possible I pointed out the security cameras and offered the time of day to start the search. They also declined. Found a local independent shop.

You can change a 7 on the paperwork to a 2 easily and pocket the $500 to make the till balance out. . That’s why they do that. Crooks. Theives. Robbers.