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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: ajmoir36 on 02 February 2015, 21:15
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I have had to change both key batteries in the key fobs as the car flagged both of them as low on the radio screen. The key batteries being low had been logged by the Central Electronics (9) on VCDS too.
For info the batteries are 2025 button cells. I did think that 4 months old was pretty poor for battery life. ( I wonder if this is a keyless issue only).
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My car is now 18mnths old and never had an issue with the batteries in the key fob and that's considering that I've only ever used the one key fob. Something doesn't sound right there.
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Either that or the person before me swapped out the batteries into some other keys. They were both Sony batteries, now have some Duracell ones.
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Meant to say the new wheels look awesome mate
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I had to change mine over Xmas. Car is 18 months old and also keyless.
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Same here today with the battery warning only after 16 months. Keyless as well so wondering if this feature consumes more battery life. Sony 2025.
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Meant to say the new wheels look awesome mate
Thanks
Interesting will have to see how the Duracell's get on.
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My car is now 18mnths old and never had an issue with the batteries in the key fob and that's considering that I've only ever used the one key fob. Something doesn't sound right there.
Ditto. For 6 previous VWs, 5 have had the remote central locking, and i've never had to change a battery.
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Well it seems that changing the batteries worked and no messages on the screen anymore.
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Interesting. Mine is coming up to 12 months next month and I haven't had an issue with my keyless battery life.
Will be keeping an eye out for it though!
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It stands to reason that any car with keyless is going to be a lot harder on the keyfob battery. It has to do that bit more work than a non-keyless equipped car. Ever look at your keyfob as you press the START button? The little red LED light flashes on the fob. I'm guessing there's a fair bit of 2 way wireless communication going on between the key and the ECU to ensure that the correct key is inside the car!
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It stands to reason that any car with keyless is going to be a lot harder on the keyfob battery. It has to do that bit more work than a non-keyless equipped car. Ever look at your keyfob as you press the START button? The little red LED light flashes on the fob. I'm guessing there's a fair bit of 2 way wireless communication going on between the key and the ECU to ensure that the correct key is inside the car!
No but I must have a look now, even leave the car running and walk round to open the garage door with the key in the pocket, so I wonder if things like that have an impact.
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Car is 10 months old and got this message for the first time today.
Off to source some new batteries.
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£4 for 2x 2025 Duracell's in Tesco.
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My car is now 18mnths old and never had an issue with the batteries in the key fob and that's considering that I've only ever used the one key fob. Something doesn't sound right there.
Ditto. For 6 previous VWs, 5 have had the remote central locking, and i've never had to change a battery.
I still have the original battery's in the remote central locking keys of our two older cars we have had since new. One cars now 11 years old and the other 10 years old, all 4 keys going strong without indicating low battery.
It must have to do with it been keyless, what's the manual say about battery life?
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This has happened on my 2nd key fob now which I've used maybe 3 or 4 times since I got the car, so I guess the keyless fobs are always active in some fashion!
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My 4 months seems to be below the average lifespan though.
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Perhaps VW should use batteries with a greater current capacity (mAh) like Duracell for Keyless cars as there is a greater battery drain.
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Lets face it, as nice a car the GTD/GTI/R is VW have massively slipped in their QA department when you count how many things have gone wrong and how many shoddy parts have been installed on the car, just by these forums alone!
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Lets face it, as nice a car the GTD/GTI/R is VW have massively slipped in their QA department when you count how many things have gone wrong and how many shoddy parts have been installed on the car, just by these forums alone!
And the dealerships love it - all that extra warranty work. Kerching! Seriously though, mire people come onto forums or public access websites to moan than praise.
Most brand new cars are unreliable - good parts fitted incorrectly or poor parts fitted correctly, doomed to fail, upwards of 10k parts to work together flawlessly in all weather conditions -it's a tall order to have the car absolutely trouble free for 3 years. The real test of reliability for my is longevity of parts once the early failures are out of the way.
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Was going to start a thread on this. I log on after a week or so to see that someone beat me to it.
I have keyless. Car is now nearly 17 months old. Message saying key not found started showing up. This week after footy on Tuesday message in display no key located I had to manually start it. Luckily I had read the manual a few weeks prior car started got home car didn't lock. Had to get the spare out to lock.
Straight in to the bay 4 Duracell cr2025 for 4 quid free postage.
I think keyless does use more battery I also read if you use the fob from further away it uses more too.
Either way new batteries will be here today so I will switch back to te old fob.
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I've had my car for 18 months now and just started getting a warning about the battery being low. Looks like it must be a keyless feature. Pretty poor for the battery to only last this long!
Was it pretty straight forward to replace?
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I've had my car for 18 months now and just started getting a warning about the battery being low. Looks like it must be a keyless feature. Pretty poor for the battery to only last this long!
Was it pretty straight forward to replace?
Very easy to replace flick the key open the back of the key can be folded open.
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18 months in. Battery low for 24 hours and now found myself stranded at work. RAC came out and said use the spare. Guidance on starting the car given but did not work.
Absolute disgrace from vw skimping on batteries!
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18 months in. Battery low for 24 hours and now found myself stranded at work. RAC came out and said use the spare. Guidance on starting the car given but did not work.
Absolute disgrace from vw skimping on batteries!
Seriously? It's a battery. It costs about 2 quid and takes 30 seconds to replace it.
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I had the low message for 2 weeks, before I changed it. Weird it stranded after 24 hours.
Anyway, buy four and keep a spare in the glovebox :)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111429682941?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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Thanks guys,
Just swapped the battery and put a spare in the glove box. :cool: