content top

BMW Keys

You find out something new every day, every time I would get in the beemer I would get a few minor tweaks that I have been postponing for a little while. The one thing I don’t miss is when my car burns through the oil, I go for the top up.

I went in for an oil top up since it was running a little low. One of the other errors I keep getting on my screen was low battery in my key, one the features that I have enjoyed with my car for a few years now is push start without having to take my keys out of my pocket. At the time very few cars had it, but now its pretty common. When I went in for the oil top up I told them about the error regarding my key having a low battery. I thought they would just replace one of those really small batteries. The service guy asked if I put my key into the car or just switch it on while in my pocket. I told him that over the past couple of years I have never taken the key out of my pocket. He said that it has a recahargeable battery and that I need to plug the key into the car and start it to charge it up. I felt a little dumb since I usually read up as much as possible on the car but this time I just asked and got a very simple answer.

9 Comments »

  1. avatar comment-top

    how interesting!

    comment-bottom
  2. avatar
    Corolla Man (AE86) Says:
    February 15th 2009 at 12:52 pm
    comment-top

    WOW nice, this should be in most of the cars.

    comment-bottom
  3. avatar comment-top

    Thanks for letting me know! hehe

    comment-bottom
  4. avatar comment-top

    dude if this is ur key then sorry the service guy is mistaken… this has a regular panasonic battery and al yousefi sell it for 300 fills and if u get it through bmw in kuwait its 2kd, i changed mine last week

    comment-bottom
  5. avatar comment-top

    That is his key and it does charge in the slot..

    comment-bottom
  6. avatar comment-top

    nope not this one the older one dose this one has the keyless entry and it dosent charge

    comment-bottom
  7. avatar comment-top

    ehheeheehee

    comment-bottom
  8. avatar comment-top

    Is it the same for all manufactures ? I hardly take mine out of the pocket too.

    comment-bottom
  9. avatar comment-top

    for bmws if you have the keyless entry its a regular battery that you change. if its not the keyless entry then it recharges when plugged in.

    comment-bottom

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment