What Happens When Your Intelligent Key Malfunctions ??
 

As the topic says, what happens when such an event occurs? Are you left screwed and abandoned because you can't get in and start the car? Like, how can you tell if the battery is running low?

It would REALLY suck if this would happen while you're out and about.

Those "pit pass wand things" that are used at the gas pump!
Don't put it on your key ring or near the Intelligent Key, it causes interference. Your car may not start!

When Nissan/Infiniti first started using the Intelligent Key, they had to recall them because cellphones would wipe out the internal memory rendering the key useless. So they put in a warning asking owners to keep cellphones and Intelligent Key away from each other.

There is an actual key in the fob.

^^ Yeah I know about the key in the fob or whatever you call it. But the problem is that the car has no key ignition.....sooooo what do you do? You can call the dealership to have them order a new one or fix the one you have, I'm sure. BUT...there's another problem..lol. How are you going to get to the dealer if you can't start your car ?????

ok, use the key to open the door

and then just sit there........lol















ok ok.........there should be a special slot to insert the fob in the car and i dunno how it works, but the car should be able to start and away you go, once the car starts...you're good to go...........you can even drive around the block and leave the fob in ur house (well, after you use it to start the car)..........the car will not stall or shut down if it doesn't senses the fob anymore

:ugh: WOW, are you serious?? :icon08: I sure hope they improved on their technology for the 370. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of not having to use a key, but that thing better be reliable or else Nissan will see a lot of unhappy customers, I'm sure.

^^^ I'm sure the fob is similar to that of the G37 and i have never heard of such things like this happening to the fobs and i am quite active on the G37 forums

So if I accidently put the key fob in the same pocket as my cell phone, it could mess it up?

That problem has since been rectified.

There is a 'fob hole' to insert the fob directly which will start the car if the fob is running low on battery.

Does anyone have a pick of this "fob hole"? I was at the dealer the other week and test drove one but didn't notice the hole that you're reffering to.

I'm sorry, but I find the term "fob hole" a little to dirty for public use. Please, let's keep talk about our fob holes private.

I will take a pic of it for you, it's just a slot above the hood release that the intelli key slips into when it doesn't have enough battery left. And as Educ8r said, there is an actual key inside the fob that can open the door.

Ha I was tired when I wrote that last night and I totally laughed at myself when I read it again this morning.

Yeah, it's really more of a slit than a hole, isn't it? Oh wait, 'slit' probably isn't much better. Oh heck, let's just call it what it is. It's a fobgina. Yes, that's right, I said it. Fobgina. When all else fails, stick it into the fobgina. :tup:

Pic attached below.

:icon18: hahaha...nice...."fobgina."

Anyway, thanks for the pic!

And there is the key that slides into the fob for opening the glove box, trunk or doors...

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...0/IMG_0391.jpg

This thread is full of win :rofl2:

I suppose we should state NSFW in the thread title..what with all the fobgina flappin around..:icon18:

:bowrofl: Word of the day!!!

LMAO@fobgina.

This is all very well, but what if it's the wrong time of the month?

Do you rent for a week?

You've inspired me. I'm going to name my fob....chubbs.

:icon18: Where's the embarrassed smiley when you need one?

I'm very touched! :tiphat:

I can't wait to touch the fobgina with my chubbs in my new 370Z! :tup:

I hope you never need to, my friend - Take my advice, keep Chubbs in your pocket and just press that nob - It's what it's there for.

I've been waiting for something profound to put in my sig........Thanks! :tup:

me too :tup:

Are most of you in your late teens or early twenties?

I don't think they are they just had a Kid-isode!

I'm 50 :D

I have been driving an Infiniti (M35X) for three years now and have never had a problem. A couple of months ago the batteries in the FOBS finally got low and you had to insert the FOB to start the car. Went by my Infiniti dealer and he changed the batteries at no charge.
It REALLY is a great feature.

I, Semtex aka Fobgina-man, am 38.

:koolaidwall:

I'm reaching retirement in 45 years

I'm 21 now.

That KEY doesn't open the doors. It ONLY locks the glove box!

The part of the fob that starts the car will not run out of batteries. I can't explain why, but just trust me on it. The part of the fob that sends signals to lock/unlock the doors which is the transponder WILL stop working when the battery in the fob dies. They are two completely separate devices in one piece of plastic.

For more info on this, please look up "RFID" on google.

The "fobgina" you're all talking about is not for when the fob runs out of batteries. It's for vallet parking. You pull the key out of the fob, use it to lock the glove box, and put the rest of the fob in the slot and rest of your keys go with the key in the fob... so you can take it with you and prevent the vallet drivers from getting in your glove box.

Any more questions?

Yes, I have a question.

What on earth does the bit I've quoted mean?

I think he means:


Take Key from inside fob and the rest of your keychain inside with you.

Leave fob inside fobgina for valet

The mechanical key does in fact unlock/lock the doors. That's why the doors have keyholes. I just tried it with my own car to verify. In fact, this is explicitly covered in the manual, page 3-4. Also, there's a section in the manual called Valet Hand-off, and it doesn't say you have to stick the fob in the fobgina, it just says hand it to the valet attendant (sans the mechanical key if you've locked something in the glove box, of course). Indeed, I wouldn't want the attendant to leave the fob in the car, because that will prevent him from locking the doors.

Now, what you wrote about the part of the fob that starts the car not running out of batteries is interesting. The fobgina (which is really called the 'Intelligent Key Port') is covered on page 5-9 and 5-10 of the manual. It states: "If the battery of the Intelligent Key is almost discharged, the guide light of the Intelligent Key port blinks and the indicator appears on the vehicle information display. [In other words, the fobgina will start blinking.] In this case, inserting the Intelligent Key into the port allows you to start the engine." It does go on to note that the fobgina doesn't actually charge the fob's battery, it just allows you to start the car.

But here's the thing. The way they have that written, it kinda implies that if your battery is low, you'll be fine, but they are silent on what happens if your battery is completely dead. Well, I just took the battery completely out of the fob, stuck it into the fobgina, and it still allowed me to start the car. (The fobgina didn't glow tho.) So you're right about the battery having nothing to do with starting the car. And that makes me wonder why they go through all this hoopla about the battery running low and a glowing fobgina. Why not just say that if your battery goes dead, don't worry, stick it in the fobgina and your car will still start?