Yeah, it's very simple to do. I did it with mine cause my remote was a pos. Just get on ebay and find one and all you have to do to program it is like take a fuse out (mall pgm or smthn?) and hold the lock and unlock keys for like 7 seconds or smthn. It's really easy, only took me like 5 mins or less. And no I didn't have to go to the dealer so don't worry about that. Oh and mine was a '99 so no problem with the year either.