I have a Ford from about that time, and the key broke in a way that caused it to fall off my keychain.
Instead of paying $100’s to rekey the car, I stuck the broken key into a machine at Home Depot. It cracked the encryption in a few minutes and produced a duplicate key. The brand on the replacement is “Ilco”. It’s bulkier than the OEM key, but it works great.
Anyway, I’m not at all surprised to hear the car uses an obsolete encryption protocol.
Instead of paying $100’s to rekey the car, I stuck the broken key into a machine at Home Depot. It cracked the encryption in a few minutes and produced a duplicate key. The brand on the replacement is “Ilco”. It’s bulkier than the OEM key, but it works great.
Anyway, I’m not at all surprised to hear the car uses an obsolete encryption protocol.