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Key fob problems

Discussion in '5th Gen 4Runners (2010-2024)' started by lodi781, Apr 10, 2020.

  1. Apr 10, 2020 at 8:32 PM
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    lodi781

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    So I have a 2016 4Runner that I bought in march of 2017. Out of the blue a week ago, my key fobs started to act up. I have to be pretty close to the car for them to work. I only used one this entire time of owning the car and figured the battery is just dead. When I tried the second key ( never used) same thing. Now I’m worried the sensor in the car is going. ANyone else have any issues like this?
     
  2. Apr 10, 2020 at 11:47 PM
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    Have you tried changing the fob battery ?
     
  3. Apr 11, 2020 at 4:48 AM
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    Not yet. It's just the fob for my 9 year old ta oma never needed new batteries. So I figured these shouldnt either
     
  4. Apr 11, 2020 at 9:17 AM
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    Change the battery. I'm assuming the spare one is just dead from sitting around, kind of the same concept as "I never use my flashlight except in a power outage so why are these damn batteries dead???"
     
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  5. Apr 11, 2020 at 1:10 PM
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    It’s the first thing I would eliminate before further debug. It’s the lowest hanging fruit.
     
  6. Apr 11, 2020 at 1:24 PM
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    Agreed. Wouldnt happen to know what batteries they take would you?
     
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  7. Apr 11, 2020 at 1:36 PM
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  8. Apr 11, 2020 at 2:21 PM
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