Lesson Learned
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Le Mans Master
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From: Woodstock Ga
Lesson Learned
Took the wife up to pickup her car at Goodyear this morning I told her I was going to run by Harbor Freight to pickup something, well I get there and turn off the car and the doors, windows or nothing else works I look at the dash and it says no FOB detected. When we left the house my wife have her Fob for the vet and mine was still on the counter so the car started and ran fine until I turned it off, had to call my wife to bring me her fob so I could get home lesson learned on that one..
Instructor
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From: Seal Beach Ca
I did something like that last week. Backed car out of garage, walked back in house to grab sunglasses or something and must have set fob down. Drove to local shopping center, went in a store and then realized I didn't have the fob. Of course car was locked when I returned so I had On-star unlock it in the hope the fob was inside somewhere. No fob, but I was able to call a neighbor who has a key to my house and she brought me the fob. I rewarded her with something from the local Starbucks.
Pro
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From: Clovis California
This is good stuff!!! I am sure I will a story like this soon. Lager99 will no doubt hammer me but what the heck.
Can you now imagine having your tires fixed, believe me those guys, and they are great and well meainign, are just lost with the FOB etc. It is a riot.
Can you now imagine having your tires fixed, believe me those guys, and they are great and well meainign, are just lost with the FOB etc. It is a riot.
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I'm surprised that you didn't get an error message on the DIC when you tried to turn off the engine. The one time the car couldn't detect my fob when I got ready to turn it off, I got some kind of message, "RUN or STOP", I think.
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Originally Posted by Thud
I wonder if anybody at GM ever thought of scenarios like this when they were coming up with the whole "keyless ignition" thing. 
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From: Psychizogeographic -- Knoxville and Houston
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Originally Posted by 03Ragtop
I never get invited to the "think of the most fkedup scenarios you can imagine" meetings.
And certainly noone is more qualified.
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From: McKinney TX
St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
Originally Posted by Mervz
The car will let you start it ONCE without the fob. He needs to learn to read the owners manual!
Pro
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From: Madison WI
Originally Posted by Mervz
The car will let you start it ONCE without the fob. He needs to learn to read the owners manual!
Errrr... Well.... only if you heed the "FOB not detected" warning. If you don't read, or don't understand, the message and push off again you are SOL.
If you do catch on, you have 5 minutes to start the car or it decides you really don't want to. I didn't see where this was limited to a one time deal.
I'm reading page 3-58 in the manual.. online version is at https://www.mygmlink.com/pdf/go2cont...05corvette.pdf
I kinda' like the keyless bit, but it sure makes the car very different from most cars. If someone else is going to drive it (yeah, yeah... I know... don't let anyone else drive it) you feel like you are giving them a preflight briefing before they start the engine the first time.
Burning Brakes
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Preflight briefing...that's funny. I too have a preflight briefing for trainee drivers. How to start, shut down, put in reverse to shut off, and watch out for CAGS too. I've got the brief down perfect now.
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Originally Posted by Boozman
Took the wife up to pickup her car at Goodyear this morning I told her I was going to run by Harbor Freight to pickup something, well I get there and turn off the car and the doors, windows or nothing else works I look at the dash and it says no FOB detected. When we left the house my wife have her Fob for the vet and mine was still on the counter so the car started and ran fine until I turned it off, had to call my wife to bring me her fob so I could get home lesson learned on that one..
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From: Madison WI
Originally Posted by Buster1
Preflight briefing...that's funny. I too have a preflight briefing for trainee drivers. How to start, shut down, put in reverse to shut off, and watch out for CAGS too. I've got the brief down perfect now.
Come to think of it, there are a few more:
- you do have figure out who is going to have the FOB. If the FOB carrier leaves, the remaining occupant needs to open a door or manually lock the door, otherwise if they decide to get out later they set the alarm off.
-if you both have FOBs, then the car will blow the horn three times every once in a while when you are exiting... sometimes when you have both exited... trying to tell you that a FOB is still in the car. Guess what, at times they have both been outside the car... I haven't figured that one out yet... I just don't take bioth FOBs anywhere.
Ya know? Maybe I'm not so enthused about this technology after all.
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From: Canal Winchester OH
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Simple solution to this would be to have the car just quit running, or perhaps just run in a "limp home mode" if the fob signal is lost. It would let you know immediately that the fob wasn't there. It would also be a deterent to some dumbazz carjacking you too. They wouldn't know what to think when the car just dies and tries to figure out how to restart it.
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From: Miami bound
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Preflight briefing...that's funny. I too have a preflight briefing for trainee drivers. How to start, shut down, put in reverse to shut off, and watch out for CAGS too. I've got the brief down perfect now.
Don't forget seat memory and its interaction with the parking brake.
Come to think of it, there are a few more:
- you do have figure out who is going to have the FOB. If the FOB carrier leaves, the remaining occupant needs to open a door or manually lock the door, otherwise if they decide to get out later they set the alarm off.
-if you both have FOBs, then the car will blow the horn three times every once in a while when you are exiting... sometimes when you have both exited... trying to tell you that a FOB is still in the car. Guess what, at times they have both been outside the car... I haven't figured that one out yet... I just don't take both FOBs anywhere.
Ya know? Maybe I'm not so enthused about this technology after all.
Don't forget seat memory and its interaction with the parking brake.
Come to think of it, there are a few more:
- you do have figure out who is going to have the FOB. If the FOB carrier leaves, the remaining occupant needs to open a door or manually lock the door, otherwise if they decide to get out later they set the alarm off.
-if you both have FOBs, then the car will blow the horn three times every once in a while when you are exiting... sometimes when you have both exited... trying to tell you that a FOB is still in the car. Guess what, at times they have both been outside the car... I haven't figured that one out yet... I just don't take both FOBs anywhere.
Ya know? Maybe I'm not so enthused about this technology after all.
