Repeated Fiesta "Key battery low" messages
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Hello,
We have a 2014 Fiesta with the radio key fob that stays in your pocket... so there's a start button and no keyhole... which I'm sure has a neater name than that but I can't remember it. We have two keys, and have owned the car from new. It was a decent number of years before a battery needed replacing in any of the keys. Now we seem to get the "replace battery" message within a couple of weeks of replacing them. I wondered if I was always replacing one fob, and the other was the culprit, but I've now replaced the batteries in both on multiple occasions, only to have the message appear again very quickly.
Have I just bought a dodgy pack of cells, or is there something else going on here? Is something draining the battery quickly? Is the car mistaken?
Any ideas or similar experiences gratefully received.
We have a 2014 Fiesta with the radio key fob that stays in your pocket... so there's a start button and no keyhole... which I'm sure has a neater name than that but I can't remember it. We have two keys, and have owned the car from new. It was a decent number of years before a battery needed replacing in any of the keys. Now we seem to get the "replace battery" message within a couple of weeks of replacing them. I wondered if I was always replacing one fob, and the other was the culprit, but I've now replaced the batteries in both on multiple occasions, only to have the message appear again very quickly.
Have I just bought a dodgy pack of cells, or is there something else going on here? Is something draining the battery quickly? Is the car mistaken?
Any ideas or similar experiences gratefully received.
Why do people never just have a look in the manual for their car?
Suprisingly Ford and most manufacturers write it all down even with pictures sometimes on how to fix basic things on your car. Small book usually about A5 size in a wallet quite often lives in the glovebox of most cars.
Suprisingly Ford and most manufacturers write it all down even with pictures sometimes on how to fix basic things on your car. Small book usually about A5 size in a wallet quite often lives in the glovebox of most cars.
sherman said:
Why do people never just have a look in the manual for their car?
Suprisingly Ford and most manufacturers write it all down even with pictures sometimes on how to fix basic things on your car. Small book usually about A5 size in a wallet quite often lives in the glovebox of most cars.
It's a bloke thing!...Never read the destructions Suprisingly Ford and most manufacturers write it all down even with pictures sometimes on how to fix basic things on your car. Small book usually about A5 size in a wallet quite often lives in the glovebox of most cars.
I don't have the car here at the moment, so I can't see what the manual says. However, I'm fairly sure the warning has gone away in the past after changing a battery. So I didn't think it was a warning that needed resetting, since it went away without a reset in the past. Also, when the battery first ran out on the "main" key, the second key didn't trigger the warning since it was fully charged.
ETA: The 2018 thread referenced above makes the same point - change the battery, no warning initially, but then returns within a few weeks.
ETA: The 2018 thread referenced above makes the same point - change the battery, no warning initially, but then returns within a few weeks.
Edited by Prawo Jazdy on Wednesday 13th July 14:09
Prawo Jazdy said:
........ the warning has gone away in the past after changing a battery. So I didn't think it was a warning that needed resetting, since it went away without a reset in the past. Also, when the battery first ran out on the "main" key, the second key didn't trigger the warning since it was fully charged.
My experience was the same in 7 years of ownership & probably 4/6 batteries as you recall. Same too using the second fob, #1 Warning #2 No problem.Gassing Station | Ford | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff