key fob stuck in recepticle in glove box
#1
Team Owner
Thread Starter
key fob stuck in recepticle in glove box
2005 CORVETTE:
Has anyone here ever experienced this problem?
Last time I plugged in key fob into this receptacle it was removed easily by just pulling it out.
Now it is stuck. It moves around a little bit at different angles up and down but it is so tight that it bent the metal on key ring and put a hole in my finger.
Any special trick to remove key fob?
Has anyone here ever experienced this problem?
Last time I plugged in key fob into this receptacle it was removed easily by just pulling it out.
Now it is stuck. It moves around a little bit at different angles up and down but it is so tight that it bent the metal on key ring and put a hole in my finger.
Any special trick to remove key fob?
#3
Le Mans Master
Wow....thats a first....never heard of that one. Maybe hook up a loop to the fob and put a screwdriver through the loop and pull it out that way
Clif
Clif
#4
Team Owner
Thread Starter
I tried by hand and as previously mentioned but was afraid if I used maximum muscle it might pull out everything circuits included if there are any behind it. The thin key ring broke punctured my finger.
The car runs but it doesn't lock.
#6
Race Director
#7
I got 1 stuck in a nissan. had to partially dis-assemble the dash & just kept jabbering the sides with a tiny screw driver and knife. it came free.
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duckvett (06-08-2018)
#12
Wow!
Just goes to show you, just because it's never happened, doesn't mean it can't or never will.
Just goes to show you, just because it's never happened, doesn't mean it can't or never will.
#13
Le Mans Master
#14
Le Mans Master
#15
Team Owner
Thread Starter
Even the Chev. dealership told me they have never heard of this happening.
I will be that ONE in a million with some problem.
On a good note I replaced both key FOB batteries and all features of key FOB from picking up FOB Display Indicator Center, hatch release to manual locking/unlocking and auto locking are all operating at 100%.
Replaced original 2005 battery last year 2017
71,000 plus miles my low brake indicators just started a low squeal which means my first brake job is coming up on 2005 4spd. automatic
Last edited by LS WON; 06-10-2018 at 01:11 AM.
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Landru (03-24-2024)
#16
Fresh car and fob batteries are our friends.
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LS WON (06-10-2018)
#18
I will say that this thread made me wonder about the slot on my '05, and, sure enough, there are bits of plastic sticking out in both sides in the slot. The left side seemed like a swinging bit that would act like a pressure to keep the right side pressed up against the rough bit of plastic bits (which got caught up in the OP's fob).
Not sure what they are there for, given what little I know about electromagnetic induction, but now I can see how this happened to jam the fob in there.
Not sure what they are there for, given what little I know about electromagnetic induction, but now I can see how this happened to jam the fob in there.
#19
Team Owner
Thread Starter
I will say that this thread made me wonder about the slot on my '05, and, sure enough, there are bits of plastic sticking out in both sides in the slot. The left side seemed like a swinging bit that would act like a pressure to keep the right side pressed up against the rough bit of plastic bits (which got caught up in the OP's fob).
Not sure what they are there for, given what little I know about electromagnetic induction, but now I can see how this happened to jam the fob in there.
Not sure what they are there for, given what little I know about electromagnetic induction, but now I can see how this happened to jam the fob in there.
It is possible that I may have pushed it in too far but dealership told me there is nothing back there that holds it or plugs into.
I did notice that one of the buttons on key fob was marked or compressed where it got stuck.
#20
Melting Slicks
Haven't heard of this before. The only possibility I can think of is one of the buttons is getting hung on something (although I don't know what that could be). Try sliding something like a small putty knife or butter knife down the side the buttons are on to depress them and see if that frees it up. Good luck.
Last edited by Welker1; 06-10-2018 at 01:32 AM.