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Offline ajmoir36

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Key Batteries
« on: 02 February 2015, 21:15 »
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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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #1 on: 02 February 2015, 21:43 »
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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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #2 on: 02 February 2015, 21:46 »
 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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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #3 on: 02 February 2015, 21:57 »
Meant to say the new wheels look awesome mate
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Offline JoeGTI

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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #4 on: 02 February 2015, 22:07 »
I had to change mine over Xmas. Car is 18 months old and also keyless.
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Offline adekil

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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #5 on: 02 February 2015, 22:39 »
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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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #6 on: 02 February 2015, 22:51 »
Quote from: CraigW on 02 February 2015, 21:57
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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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #7 on: 03 February 2015, 06:10 »
Quote from: CraigW on 02 February 2015, 21:43
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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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #8 on: 03 February 2015, 07:53 »
Well it seems that changing the batteries worked and no messages on the screen anymore.
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Re: Key Batteries
« Reply #9 on: 03 February 2015, 13:26 »
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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