Jeezoo that is a long long time. In my truck, it’s not very hard to figure out how it reads the key… On the 04’ Exploder you simply remove the plastic housing from around your steering column and the RF chip reader is right there closest to the ignition switch. Very visible and easy to get to, but who knows what they did in your model and year… I would like to think its exactly the same because it works and is very simple… but that doesn’t mean a damn thing in the car world. They seem to love to change things like this for the sake of change or job security for someone in the design department. I have no idea…
I’d be interested to hear what took them so long.