Dealer will replace the passive FOB and I'm sure all the associated labor costs. I am looking to buy the active FOB (21175A). But looking at the link, my dealer is not giving me any discount at all. I misspoke..... They dropped the price $3.00 how could I pass that up!!
Ah, I missed that when I read your original post. So they lost the passive FOB, they are going to replace it at no charge (as they should). They've dragged their feet getting your DMV stuff processed causing you to not have plates and registration after 3 months.
After all this, you were asking them to give you a discount on a
Active FOB, which it looks like they offered (from MSRP), but you didn't mention if the programming costs were included.
Yours was a reasonable request, and most dealers don't acknowledge you can buy stuff off the web for less than they will sell it to you. So, if the prices you listed in your opening post haven't changed, they are doing OK in their minds. The real thing to consider in that offer is if you can get them to program the new Active FOB for no charge. If so, then it is a good deal. Since they will be programming the Passive FOB anyway, they should be willing to do that (if they have both FOBs there at that time).
Also, it has been reported here before that the Key ECU only has 6, one time programming slots in it for FOB's, and once those have been used, the Key ECU will have to be replaced if another FOB needs to be added. That costs a lot more money to replace.