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Hi,

I have a key for a 04 MY Boxster that has stopped working and the red LED is on permanently. Having found no joy in the handbook, I assume one of two scenarios

A. The key is broken requiring a visit to the OPC, a day off work, warranty claim, delay, and hassle.

B. The battery has gone flat, and I can replace the battery at a local non-OPC garage. Is it possible to deprogram the immobiliser or security codes of the key if I leave the battery out too long?

Can anyone advise please.
 
Doubt the battery is flat as the LED is on...
(You do mean the LED in the keyfob? Not the Alarm indicator in the car?)

Does the other key work OK?
The light should not stay on on the keyfob. A fault with this usually results in no light on the LED.
Maybe it would reset itself if the battery was removed - you should be able to do this without losing the key/car pairing.

Worth a try?
 
Mark,

The other key (mine) works fine. This is the wife's key that has been used about 3 times in 18 months.

The LED is the one on the key that normally only comes on when you press a button on the key.

I am not sure if this is connected but. Having once had a flat battery due to leaving the car unlocked inside the garage, I am always careful to make sure it is locked. So going to it last Saturday it was unlocked and the car battery was flat. Has the wife unwittingly unlocked it with a malfunctioning key?
 
Mark and co:

the red light on the key will stay on to let you know that the battery needs changing. my OPC changed it for me for £3 but im told the batterys are cheeper else where and its a DIY job as the codes arn't affected (might be worth checking thats still the case though)
 
I "fixed" 2 keys where the light would not go off. Remove the battery and put it back in. No clue why this works or why it was stuck on to begin with.
 
I can find no reference to the light staying on to tell you the battery needs changing (seems a bit daft to me... The battery is low, so to tell you we are going to drain the power out real quick!) I have no doubt the OPC told Helen it stays on when they changed the battery though...

I'm with you Jeff - change the battery and see if it resets it.
 
ORIGINAL: Tool Pants
I "fixed" 2 keys where the light would not go off. Remove the battery and put it back in. No clue why this works or why it was stuck on to begin with.
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Maybe when OPCs are short of work, they transmit a signal to keys to make the red light come on for no apparent reason.

Then we all troop down to have our batteries replaced!

(sorry - is that a bit paranoid?)
 
ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett

I can find no reference to the light staying on to tell you the battery needs changing (seems a bit daft to me... The battery is low, so to tell you we are going to drain the power out real quick!) I have no doubt the OPC told Helen it stays on when they changed the battery though...

I'm with you Jeff - change the battery and see if it resets it.
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its quite common my back door bell does the same. and the smoke detectors beep.
 
I forgot that Porsche issued a bulletin about the remote last year. Does not really cover your problem. But if you remove and replace the very same battery I bet the light will be out, unless your battery is dead by now.

The light staying on all the time started when the 3 button remote came out in 2001.

Maybe it is a warning that your are behind in car payments.

http://home.jps.net/~mjlopez/images/Battery%20key%20head%20replacement%206-25-04.pdf

remote
 

ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett

That almost looks like a Porsche April fools joke though[:D]

3 pages on changing the battery!
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[&o]Mark A certain OPC once managed to short fill my Boxster by just under a litre of oil and give me 4 different tyre pressures all round on the 1st while you wait service [:eek:]

Another OPC managed to overfill my 911 by nearly 3 litres of oil!!! swore blind it wasn't possible until they drained my sump in front of me and then grudgingly started grovelling with very red faces [:eek:]

So 3 pages on changing a key battery is probably the bare minimum required [;)]
 
Chris,

Your line: 'This is the wife's key that has been used about 3 times in 18 months' really made me laugh, if only I could convince my wife to only use her key 3 times in 18 months ... especially when the suns out !

Tom.
 
Thanks everyone for your help.

Problem fixed with a new battery

When I looked at the key this weekend the LED was still on if somewhat dim. Re-inserting the battery made no difference. I am not saying it wouldn't have done a week ago but the LED has been on continually for a week.

For future reference the battery in my key was a Panasonic CR 2032, cost £2.49 from Comet.
 
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