starlight
Active Member
In my experience, key fob batteries usually give you some warning they they're about to fail: typically, it might take several attempts to lock the car.
Yesterday, when I briefly parked up in the course of a journey, the display flashed up a message: "Replace key fob batteries". There had been no indication that the battery was on its way out. I assumed that the message was an early warning and I've have time to source a battery (C2032). Not so, When I completed the journey, the key wouldn't lock the car. I tried the spare. The red light on the fob flashed, but still the car wouldn't lock. Then I managed to find a spare battery and fitted that to the "primary" fob. Again, the red light flashed but the car still wouldn't lock. The solution was to start the car - that seemed to "clear" the fault. After switching the engine off the car could be locked.as usual.
So, it's obviously a good idea to keep a spare battery handy. Just puzzling thatthe battery failure didn't prevent the car from starting (it has the push button "keyless go" feature).
Yesterday, when I briefly parked up in the course of a journey, the display flashed up a message: "Replace key fob batteries". There had been no indication that the battery was on its way out. I assumed that the message was an early warning and I've have time to source a battery (C2032). Not so, When I completed the journey, the key wouldn't lock the car. I tried the spare. The red light on the fob flashed, but still the car wouldn't lock. Then I managed to find a spare battery and fitted that to the "primary" fob. Again, the red light flashed but the car still wouldn't lock. The solution was to start the car - that seemed to "clear" the fault. After switching the engine off the car could be locked.as usual.
So, it's obviously a good idea to keep a spare battery handy. Just puzzling thatthe battery failure didn't prevent the car from starting (it has the push button "keyless go" feature).
