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Dec 11, 2017 | 06:53 PM

traderfjp

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Weird Occurrence Today

Ok. It was really cold and icy last night so I decided to start my car this morning while I got ready to work. I drove to work like always and when I got to my destination I saw a message saying no key FOB detected. I had left my keys in my other jacket. Now I'm in the parking lot not too happy. The car says to press the clutch to start after I turned my car off. In summary, I was able to drive 35 minutes without the key FOB and was able to start the car once I got to work and realized I had no FOB. Once I closed the door the car locked and I was SOL. Is this the way things are suppose to go. I have a 2014 7speed.

Dec 11, 2017 | 07:18 PM

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From what I have read it does sound normal.

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Dec 11, 2017 | 07:21 PM

c54u

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yes

You had to have changed jackets after you started the car.

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Dec 11, 2017 | 07:31 PM

Dif

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Yes it's designed that way.
Once it's started it can be driven without the fob present.
After shutting it off, it can be started only once without the fob so you can go get a fob.
And if I remember correctly, if you shut if off without a fob present, you only have a certain amount of time to start it again.

Dec 11, 2017 | 07:36 PM

pkincy

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It sounds like the engineer that thought that up is still laughing at all of us.

Dec 11, 2017 | 08:06 PM

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Better than crying when someone jumps into your car after you leave it and drives away.

Dec 11, 2017 | 08:30 PM

Gearhead Jim

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It needs to be that way, otherwise if your fob died or lost contact while you were driving, the car would die in the middle of traffic.

But with all the extraneous electronic mumbo-jumbo they put in the C7, they could have set it so that if you started the car with a fob present and then removed the fob, it would warn you when you first put it in gear with no fob present.

OTOH, my wife could start our C6 with no fob at all in the car if I happened to be standing behind the left-rear wheel with a fob in my pocket. We never experimented to so how far away I could get. So it's possible that OP's fob was always in the other jacket but close enough that the car recognized it.

Dec 11, 2017 | 08:39 PM

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Not that I would ever do this, but...some may wrap a spare FOB in aluminum foil and put it in the rear storage compartment. The key from that FOB may then be secured in a little key box to someplace accessible (yet not obvious) on the undercarriage/frame. A few wraps of duct tape works great.

In the event of a lost or dead FOB you're quickly back in business.