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Originally Posted by Hugoneus
The FOB performs several functions:
1) It allows you to remotely lock/unlock doors and activate the emergency alarm.
2) Allows you to lock/unlock the doors and trunk if you are in the proximity of the car.
3) Allows you to start the car as long as the fob is inside the car.
4) Prevents other people from unlocking your door by pushing the buttons on the door handles.
Obviously the FOB is designed to be beneficial if it has batteries. If it runs out of battery they still provide you with some ways to turn your car on until you replace the battery. If the FOB has no battery, you cannot remotely lock/unlock your car. That is the same with any remote key-less entry system.
My apologize, but I fail to see what your point is. Are you saying that a device without batteries is (mostly) useless? Yes, I agree it is.
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No, I'm saying that the fobgina is useless, not the fob itself. As I previously mentioned, just to experiment, I have taken the battery out of my fob, left the fob in my pocket, gotten in my car and it still starts my car. So obviously the fob does not need power in order to start the car. So what's left that does require power? Well, you mentioned pretty much all of them above. But here's the rub. You can send power to a fob with a dead battery by sticking it into the fobgina, right? Well, you're not going to remotely lock/unlock the doors or activate the emergency alarm while the fob is stuck inside the fobgina. Or to put it another way, by sticking your fob into the key hole, it'll power up the buttons on your fob, but your access to those buttons will be obstructed by the very fact that you have inserted the fob into the key holder. So what's the point of even having a fobgina to stick it into? As I said, you don't need it to start the car up.