Excellent explanation. I bookmarked this in case I needed in the future. This is the reason I kept coming back to this forum to pick up more info.
No. Your DA should ideally show you. Mine showed me the valet card and push handle to entry, but didn't show me that the key fob could be used the same way, and I didn't know about it until this moment. By coincidence we have some friends from Seattle staying with us and and between their kids and mine, not everyone would fit into my wife's Subaru and I had to work, so I let my friend borrow the Lucid Thursday so they could get around together. When I got home I asked if he had any trouble with the car and he was in a total panic because the car was alerting that the Fob battery needed to be replaced, but luckily they'd made it home before it died (I'd replaced the battery in my fob but forgot about the one in the second fob!). So I switched the battery and all was fine, but I should have given him the valet card as a backup but I just didn't think of it. But now I can just use the nearly dead fob to open the car, so that's handy. Moral of the story, if you let anyone else drive your car, make sure the backup fob has a good battery, put backup batteries in the glovebox like I do, also give them one of the valet cards, and also don't leave your mobile key phone in the car, and tell them not to leave the fob in the car. That complicated list of contingency planning should scare them enough to make them never want to borrow your car again hahahaha.
I'm wondering how the fob batteries are dying so quick? I have fobs that are 10 years old and never needed to replace the fob or the batteries...
Replaced batteries don't seem to die quickly, it's only the originals from the factory so far, unless other owners have found them to drain new replaced batteries quickly.
Second this, first one died after 3 weeks. Replaced it and haven't had an issue since.
I believe a dead keyfob needs to be placed below the camera on the pillar, whereas the valet card goes above the camera. Is that right?
Wow…that’s going to take some getting used too…at least for me. I’ve never locked our cars when they’re in the garage and we’re home….will that be a problem/issue?
Thx…my problems began with the advent of the fob era…if I keep in a pocket it never ends up in the the car when I get back in the next day…so back into the house frisking pant pockets, etc.
We do that with our other cars (leave the Fobs in the car) but don’t with the leaf.
Put a dish by the door that keys/fobs go into. Problem solved. Back when we had physical keys everyone would think you were crazy if you’d leave your keys in your car. What happened? The only difference is fobs have a different shape than a key ring. So if you go out to dinner or to a store you also leave the fob in the car? I just don’t understand, because if your fob is always on you (pants pocket, purse, whatever) then you never have to take it out while you’re in the car, and never risk leaving it in the car by accident, and you’re worry free with no inconvenience. But if you do it the “I must leave my keys/fob in my car” way, then you have to remember to remove the fob every time you take the car anywhere that’s not your house if you don’t want your car stolen/broken into, etc, but then also remember to leave the fob back into the car once you get home?
My only concern is that like you and many others, the FOB seems to drain the batteries. Typically a FOB battery should last a year or two. Each of the three times I meet with my service tech, he replaced the FOB battery and also provide me with a set of four batteries on the first visit. Hopefully, the FOB has an updatable firmware and they can someone get the FOB to sleep or go into a very low power state when not close to the car.
As an immigrant from Bangladesh, thank you for the clarification. I will make sure I use "key" before using this term just for extra, extra clarification. People should understand what is written in the context it was written in.
