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Title: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: tunnie on 09 April 2008, 22:29:10
Is CR2032 battery suitable for facelift keys (3 button) ?
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: CaptainZok on 09 April 2008, 22:33:28
Indeed it is Tunnie, some going cheap in the shop at the moment
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: tunnie on 09 April 2008, 22:38:14
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Indeed it is Tunnie, some going cheap in the shop at the moment

Thats what i spotted  8-)

Dads remote is being sluggish, needs a new battery. might as well change mine at the same time.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: CaptainZok on 09 April 2008, 22:41:10
Yes just changed mine, they're the same as the new Astra hire car I had last week.
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: TheBoy on 09 April 2008, 22:42:12
Most fobs use CR2032s.
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: Debs. on 09 April 2008, 22:43:38
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Yes just changed mine, they're the same as the new Astra hire car I had last week.
;D......I like that thinking!  :y
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: Martin_1962 on 09 April 2008, 23:40:38
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Yes just changed mine, they're the same as the new Astra hire car I had last week.


Good source!
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: Martin_1962 on 09 April 2008, 23:41:10
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Most fobs use CR2032s.


As do some childrens toys Tamawhatsies
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: VXL V6 on 10 April 2008, 08:48:13
Not very impressed with the Omega fob, the range is apalling. I put a new battery in and the range improves to the point where I don't have to be standing next to the drivers door for about a week....... then it's back to that sort of range.

Would say the fob is faulty but the spare is exactly the same. :'(


Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: Kevin Wood on 10 April 2008, 09:23:59
Don't knock it. A colleague of mine used to have a Jag S-type and the fob had about 1/2 a mile range. He was forever coming out of the office to find the boot had been open in the rain cos he'd bent over with the keys in his pocket at some point during the day.  ;D

Kevin
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: TheBoy on 10 April 2008, 22:33:35
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Not very impressed with the Omega fob, the range is apalling. I put a new battery in and the range improves to the point where I don't have to be standing next to the drivers door for about a week....... then it's back to that sort of range.

Would say the fob is faulty but the spare is exactly the same. :'(


 
I've got a really good fob on tractor.  So much so, that I'm going to program to MV6 if/when that car ever gets back on the road.
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: tunnie on 10 April 2008, 23:01:47
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Not very impressed with the Omega fob, the range is apalling. I put a new battery in and the range improves to the point where I don't have to be standing next to the drivers door for about a week....... then it's back to that sort of range.

Would say the fob is faulty but the spare is exactly the same. :'(


 

Why do you need to open it so far away? mine works 2/3 cars way as i walk up to it. X plate facelift, never changed the battery so far.

Its ok for me  :)
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: VXL V6 on 10 April 2008, 23:26:40
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Not very impressed with the Omega fob, the range is apalling. I put a new battery in and the range improves to the point where I don't have to be standing next to the drivers door for about a week....... then it's back to that sort of range.

Would say the fob is faulty but the spare is exactly the same. :'(


 

Why do you need to open it so far away? mine works 2/3 cars way as i walk up to it. X plate facelift, never changed the battery so far.

Its ok for me  :)

When you put a new battery in the fob you can stand about 6ft away, after a week you need to be standing next to the drivers door..... really good if all you want to do is open the boot.



Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: tunnie on 11 April 2008, 08:23:17
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Not very impressed with the Omega fob, the range is apalling. I put a new battery in and the range improves to the point where I don't have to be standing next to the drivers door for about a week....... then it's back to that sort of range.

Would say the fob is faulty but the spare is exactly the same. :'(


 

Why do you need to open it so far away? mine works 2/3 cars way as i walk up to it. X plate facelift, never changed the battery so far.

Its ok for me  :)

When you put a new battery in the fob you can stand about 6ft away, after a week you need to be standing next to the drivers door..... really good if all you want to do is open the boot.




Faulty fob?

As i said, mine works about 3 cars way in the station car park, so about 12-15 feet away.

I often pop the boot as i walk up to it...
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: VXL V6 on 11 April 2008, 08:36:44
That's what I thought, however the spare is the same. Might get a third fob (I have the horseshoe/blade and immobiliser chip already) from VX and get TB to program it.  ::)


Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: wakeyomega on 11 April 2008, 08:47:57
Problems with the range of your key - no problem! Just use the Jeremy Clarkson method of holding the key fob to your scull while you press to get the skeletal frame to increase the range!

Not sure how many of you saw that Top gear episode a couple of years ago, but next day there were people all over the place trying it. It wasn't April 1st, and I'm still not convinced it doesn't work (double negative there to get your brain working this morning).

Pat
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: TheBoy on 11 April 2008, 08:50:35
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Problems with the range of your key - no problem! Just use the Jeremy Clarkson method of holding the key fob to your scull while you press to get the skeletal frame to increase the range!

Not sure how many of you saw that Top gear episode a couple of years ago, but next day there were people all over the place trying it. It wasn't April 1st, and I'm still not convinced it doesn't work (double negative there to get your brain working this morning).

Pat
It does work - your head acts as a cavity for it.  No comments about empty cavitys please.
Title: Re: Facelift Key - Battery
Post by: davlad22 on 11 April 2008, 14:38:29
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Not very impressed with the Omega fob, the range is apalling. I put a new battery in and the range improves to the point where I don't have to be standing next to the drivers door for about a week....... then it's back to that sort of range.

Would say the fob is faulty but the spare is exactly the same. :'(


 

Why do you need to open it so far away? mine works 2/3 cars way as i walk up to it. X plate facelift, never changed the battery so far.

Its ok for me  :)

When you put a new battery in the fob you can stand about 6ft away, after a week you need to be standing next to the drivers door..... really good if all you want to do is open the boot.



Same here  ::)