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YOUR RESEARCH£150 for a key remote battery!
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OK, so it was the cockpit area, so I took some poetic licence....
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I once opened two of mine to switch the batteries over and could not get them to close again tightly with a clean joint.
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The friendly assistant behind jovily told me that this is very common and that they very often break when you change the battery.
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If Porsche were replacing all faulty key cases F.O.C for the life of the car then this problem just wouldn't exist but on the other hand charging a ridiculous replacement price is another matter entirely [
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Just to put another side to this, in 5 years of 996 ownership, daily use, 55,000 miles, 2 DIY battery changes , no problem.
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If Porsche were replacing all faulty key cases F.O.C for the life of the car then this problem just wouldn't exist but on the other hand charging a ridiculous replacement price is another matter entirely [
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The battery on my remote went the other day, so I opened the case to put in a new one as I had with any other car I previously owned. I found to my annoyance that I could not get the case to shut again. So I went to my local OPC to get a new case. It turns out they don't sell the cases on their own, you have to buy a whole new key. So in order not to lose the the innerds out of my key, thats what I had to do. The bill for the key was £99, to have it re-programed was another £50. The friendly assistant behind jovily told me that this is very common and that they very often break when you change the battery.
Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but this sounds like a bit of a con to me. Why can't they just sell the covers if they are aware of a design flaw.
Andrew
You are absolutely correct.
Anyone with a 996/Boxster key should be very careful. I once opened two of mine to switch the batteries over and could not get them to close again tightly with a clean joint. My OPC fixed them, but said that they are easily damaged if opened.
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]This being the case (no pun intended) with a world famous top end sports car manufacturer / specialist engineering business it's a bloody disgrace that such a basic design fault hasn't been sorted [
] No wonder the RMS problem continues to leak on [&o]
Just to put another side to this, in 5 years of 996 ownership, daily use, 55,000 miles, 2 DIY battery changes , no problem. Porsche dont make the keys , just like they dont make the batteries or tyres , so its not in the same camp as an engine design fault. Enjoy the car !
I think the point is, it has their name on it, which should mean that it has the same engineering standard as the rest of the car. Something about spoilt ship and a small amount of tar comes to mind. The little things that go wrong, people remember, the big things that go right, they don't.
And, as the man says, they are a major engineering design/consultancy business.
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] John you got exactly where I was coming from spot on. If Porsche were replacing all faulty key cases F.O.C for the life of the car then this problem just wouldn't exist but on the other hand charging a ridiculous replacement price is another matter entirely [
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As part of their consultancy, Porsche had a hand in the design of the various Airbus models - just imagine the replacement cost for a 'plip' device for one of them !
OK, so it was the cockpit area, so I took some poetic licence....
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