Automotive Keys Subaru DAT17 Transponder Key Shell Vancouver

DAT17 is a long-running Subaru blade profile, found on Foresters, Imprezas, Outbacks and Legacys from the years when the chip lived in a plain key head. When that head cracks open or the blade loosens, the chip inside usually still works, and this shell lets us rebuild the key around it. It contains no transponder. Your chip goes into the new head, the blade is cut to your original or to code, and the Subaru carries on reading the same chip. That means no programming, and the car can stay home while we do the work. Ask us to confirm that your Subaru uses DAT17, since later models moved to other keys. Subaru owners tend to keep their cars a long time and drive them hard on mountain roads and gravel, and the key head often wears through before anything else does. A rebuilt key in a fresh shell is a small fix that heads off a stranded moment at a trailhead. If the chip was lost when the key broke, a shell will not start the car. In that case we cut and program a complete Subaru transponder key at the vehicle.