Topic: remote key fob for car not working!!!

[fitzsie]

Unfortunately with todays technology nothing comes cheap any more. I lost the keys to our motorhoome on a Peugeot chassis and had to reorder. As we still had the Access Card the garage was then able to progamme the new key all at a cost of £220 !! Would have been a lot more if we hadn't had this card !!

[davejg]

The battery went flat on my mondeo key fob, using the key allows me to do everything including set the alarm. Anyway told the garage at service time, he said take it to the main dealer, did that , they said take it to halfords, they said ring ford, rang ford, ford say takeit to main dealer did that , they said take it to halfords. Anyone remember the flanders & swann song "the gas man cometh" I only wanted a new battery!!

[lincsyokel2]

I took my key which has broken to a key cutting shop and he had a little machine and put the key in and came up with the code on a little digital readout.  Still pver £100 so putting up with it broken.

Which part was broken, the metal key or the radio/infrared transmitter? The point here is a 5 digit code would be the tumbler heights on the metal key, and a 9 digit number would be the radio hash  code.

[lincsyokel2]

Unfortunately with todays technology nothing comes cheap any more. I lost the keys to our motorhoome on a Peugeot chassis and had to reorder. As we still had the Access Card the garage was then able to progamme the new key all at a cost of £220 !! Would have been a lot more if we hadn't had this card !!

Yes, its a rip off though. The master alarm unit unit reprograms the key. The dealers have a Master Master that tells some alarms to reprogram the next key put in the ignition. This is essentially what the red key does. The Dealers master is a universal one, and works on a particular alarm/key type combintion. Hence the exorbitant charge is more a reflection of the fact they have you over a barrel rather than ny great labour involved in sorting it.

[tomatoada]

The battery in my car key fob stopped working.  Went to the local Kwik-Fit with spare  battery.  The man got a tool and flicked the fob open, replaced the battery, and said come back if it doesn't work.  Did not charge me.   Hey presto fob working again.

[lincsyokel2]

The battery in my car key fob stopped working.  Went to the local Kwik-Fit with spare  battery.  The man got a tool and flicked the fob open, replaced the battery, and said come back if it doesn't work.  Did not charge me.   Hey presto fob working again.

Ive found the batteries last about 8 years.