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Foretravel Motorhome Forums => Foretravel Tech Talk => Topic started by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on March 16, 2013, 09:20:59 pm

Title: Key Fobs
Post by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on March 16, 2013, 09:20:59 pm
Our 2001 key FOBS were on and off last year and when we left for FOT they just did not work.  I asked the tech to look at then.  Half and hour later he said he got one working, sort of, intermittently.  He recommended a now control box and new key FOBs.  Well I went back and checked the battery voltage, one was good, one was low, replaced the weak battery.  Same level of performance.  So I took them both apart again and checked the now 12 year old contacts.  Quite a bit of green corrosion on the neg side spring, a little bit on the positive side.  A good polishing with a pencil eraser cleaned them up.  Reassembled them and now we have two perfectly functioning FOBs.  Letters wore off long ago so I used a paint pen to make one button red and the other green.