colinbythesea
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I have had my Boxster for 2 months now and we bought it in preference to a 944 Turbo so my wife could drive it without things falling off and the car being a handful. The car came with 2 remote keys only one worked, just. New batteries fixed one but the other just flashes its LED once a second so has probably lost all its programming and is consigned to emergency spare.
The working one is OK for me but my wife (Sue) can rarely get it to work. Hence no way into the car without manually unlocking it and setting alarms off. As you can guess the jokes about it being a mans car after all started to wear thin on Sue. She has been out in it today and we had all but decided to get a new key, not cheap. Over time I seem to have developed a method which involved holding down the switch so the LED flashes and then giving it a twisting push further to activate the locks but this method eluded Sue.
Before rushing down to an OPC, we don't have any within 50 miles of us anyhow, I took the keys apart again. When I took the PCB out of the working key a light squeeze was all that was required on the switch and the car unlocked as I was sat on my sofa which is a floor up on our house. No problem every time, back in the key then back to push and twist and squeeze to unlock the car. My conclusion was that the PCB was flexing inside the key, there is a rubber washer between both halves of the key but that was carefully seated and the fault was even there with it left off. So a penny was fitted in the key side of the key, the side without the PCB, to support the PCB from the back. The key wouldn't quite close but it worked perfectly. In anticipation of a working key Sue found a bit of card and cut a couple of pieces to the size of a penny. Put them in the key closed it up and perfect locking car.
What an economical repair. I will look for some plastic to make a more durable shim to fit in the key but a small fortune saved.
If we could persuade the locking system on occasions not to lower the windows when unlocking to some random height then locking problems would be sorted.
The working one is OK for me but my wife (Sue) can rarely get it to work. Hence no way into the car without manually unlocking it and setting alarms off. As you can guess the jokes about it being a mans car after all started to wear thin on Sue. She has been out in it today and we had all but decided to get a new key, not cheap. Over time I seem to have developed a method which involved holding down the switch so the LED flashes and then giving it a twisting push further to activate the locks but this method eluded Sue.
Before rushing down to an OPC, we don't have any within 50 miles of us anyhow, I took the keys apart again. When I took the PCB out of the working key a light squeeze was all that was required on the switch and the car unlocked as I was sat on my sofa which is a floor up on our house. No problem every time, back in the key then back to push and twist and squeeze to unlock the car. My conclusion was that the PCB was flexing inside the key, there is a rubber washer between both halves of the key but that was carefully seated and the fault was even there with it left off. So a penny was fitted in the key side of the key, the side without the PCB, to support the PCB from the back. The key wouldn't quite close but it worked perfectly. In anticipation of a working key Sue found a bit of card and cut a couple of pieces to the size of a penny. Put them in the key closed it up and perfect locking car.
What an economical repair. I will look for some plastic to make a more durable shim to fit in the key but a small fortune saved.
If we could persuade the locking system on occasions not to lower the windows when unlocking to some random height then locking problems would be sorted.
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