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aren’t they just button cells you can get in any pharmacy?
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:40 |
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TK-42-1 posted:Getting your keys out of your pocket/purse is annoying.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:43 |
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hobbesmaster posted:aren’t they just button cells you can get in any pharmacy? the fob is a sealed unit as far as I can tell. no obvious screw holes or ways to open it without breaking it.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:44 |
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the little rechargeable button cells in late 90s bmw fobs work perfectly as backup batteries for 90s ham rigs. i guess everybody was like HEY RECHARGEABLE 3V LETS USE THIS
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:45 |
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i don't know what kind of penalty they apply on your lease if you turn it in with a hosed up key fob, but aren't those usually just plastic tabs and pressure fit holding them together?
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:45 |
jit bull transpile posted:the fob is a sealed unit as far as I can tell. no obvious screw holes or ways to open it without breaking it. is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OCmg1TReCQ I had to do something similar to my Honda fob. took a few minutes but all the written descriptions were garbage so I had to YouTube it up.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:47 |
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Shifty Pony posted:is it this one? yes. thx for the link. I still think keyless start is dumb whizbang bs
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:53 |
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convenience almost always comes at the cost of some amount of security keyless fobs are at the far end of that scale
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:57 |
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also i have an incredible amount of irrational hatred for the word fob
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 04:58 |
jit bull transpile posted:yes. thx for the link. I suspect it is being pushed by car manufacturers at least partially in response to the Chrysler ignition switch trouble.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:01 |
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look everybody's car already required a stupidly expensive digital authentication chip in the key since the early 2000s, so why not have things take advantage of the computer chip by not requiring you to turn the thing
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:01 |
Jonah Galtberg posted:also i have an incredible amount of irrational hatred for the word fob somehow still better than dongle
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:15 |
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Shifty Pony posted:I suspect it is being pushed by car manufacturers at least partially in response to the Chrysler ignition switch trouble. That was General Motors
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:27 |
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i was driving my saturn down the highway at 75mph when the keys fell out and my steering wheel locked and there was a turn coming up needless to say my seat was no longer blue
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:44 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:i was driving my saturn down the highway at 75mph when the keys fell out and my steering wheel locked and there was a turn coming up what the gently caress
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 05:52 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:i was driving my saturn down the highway at 75mph when the keys fell out
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 06:04 |
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a different kind of car company. a different kind of car
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 06:07 |
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:i was driving my saturn down the highway at 75mph when the keys fell out and my steering wheel locked and there was a turn coming up one time when i was a teenager i pulled a bit on the steering wheel on my old 80s chevy cavalier and it came out a bit. i pushed it back in before it came out all the way lol and just kept goin' few months later when we had to get it up on the trailer to tow it, mom reached up and pulled on the steering wheel and *pop* out it came and she was instantly "nope you are not driving that car ever again"
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 06:15 |
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Beamed posted:what the gently caress this was in the middle of the recall too, so i took it right to the dealer and told them what happened and i had a free rental car for 5 months because the part was backordered and i told them if i drive that car and die the prepare ur butts for a literal billion dollar lawsuit
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 06:58 |
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my ghost will sue you the five most effective words in american english
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 07:28 |
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Beamed posted:what the gently caress Yeah, that particular one was a known issue across like the entire GM product line
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 07:28 |
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iospace posted:Yup. Especially when trains are used to ship cars nationwide. How does Tesla expect to deliver mass amounts of cars to say, NYC, if there's no train line? autopilot obviously quote:I mean, they're going "Well, we only make the cars when the order comes in", which leads to facepalms around the industry. just in time compilation works great for computers why not cars
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 07:29 |
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Jonah Galtberg posted:also i have an incredible amount of irrational hatred for the word fob The German word is Fernbedienung. Don't know if that's more convenient
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 09:59 |
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"remote/remote control" or "thing" does the job
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 10:15 |
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Jonny 290 posted:what the hell lmao maybe TK-42-1 lives in the BW infomercial world?
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 10:22 |
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Shifty Pony posted:is it this one? I guess I'm more of a weirdo than I realized because I just take stuff like that apart for fun/to see how it goes together. maybe I should make YouTube videos of it to get some penny shavings for the trouble too
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 12:59 |
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Jonah Galtberg posted:"remote/remote control" or "thing" does the job i say thinger "hand me the thinger for the whatchamacallit"
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 13:00 |
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E: nvm
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 13:06 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:i say thinger they call em thingers but i’ve never seen em thing
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 13:14 |
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correct me if i'm wrong, but every single car i've ever seen with a fob key has a slot somewhere in the car potentially in the glovebox where you can plug the key in to use your car even if the fob battery is dead. some also charge the fob.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 13:51 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:correct me if i'm wrong, but every single car i've ever seen with a fob key has a slot somewhere in the car potentially in the glovebox where you can plug the key in to use your car even if the fob battery is dead. some also charge the fob. With Mazdas you can literally remove the key from the fob and just use that to drive to the store to get the replacement battery for $1.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 13:57 |
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Jonah Galtberg posted:also i have an incredible amount of irrational hatred for the word fob i don't want "fob", god dammit! i'm a dapper van man!
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 13:58 |
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President Beep posted:i don't want "fob", god dammit! i'm a dapper van man!
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 14:12 |
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President Beep posted:i don't want "fob", god dammit! i'm a dapper van man!
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 14:20 |
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Shifty Pony posted:is it this one? the keyfob on my honda was super easy. you take the key out, put it in a notch between the two halves of the fob, and twist and it comes apart and you just swap the battery and snap it together.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 14:28 |
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Lutha Mahtin posted:do regular car companies with EVs give guidance on how long the batteries will last before needing replacement? i know they probably have good tech to keep capacity up compared to (say) a cell phone, but still li-ion is gonna wear down eventually right I mean, you're basically describing a warranty
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 14:31 |
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expected usable life on good car batteries is ~10 years, they're supposed to retain at least 80% capacity that long.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 14:40 |
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motorcycle batteries only ever lasted me a year or two at most and car batteries tend to die almost immediately after their 1-3 year warranty expires.
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 15:07 |
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lol
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# ? Sep 11, 2018 15:09 |
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Truga posted:expected usable life on good car batteries is ~10 years, they're supposed to retain at least 80% capacity that long. The point its that the actuaries that calculate warranty periods are intentionally trying to push that number as big as possible before the failure rate spikes and start costing them a fortune, so look at the warranty duration and add maybe a year or two on that for for "standard use" (10k miles/yr I think?)
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