So, that’s where it’s been hiding
Nov 5th, 2009 by john
The car has been acting up lately. We would get into the car and couldn’t turn it on when using the keyless ignition. We’d just get the blinking red key symbol. Replacing the batteries in the fobs had no effect. It was quite annoying!
Yesterday I took it into the Nissan dealer and after about 40 minutes got a call from them.
“There’s something weird going on with your car.”
“Yes, I know”
“We can start it without having the keys in the car.”
“What?”
“Did you ever lose a key?”
“Yep – maybe a year or two ago.”
“Well, we think it’s still in the car somewhere.”
Turns out it was trapped in the rails under the driver seat! I think its battery was starting to die and that was causing the flaky recognition of the key fob. Hopefully, now that we have recovered it everything will work fine.
I’m still of the opinion that keyless ignition systems are a solution to a problem that people didn’t have. Although Colette likes it. But she carries a big ol’ purse everywhere.