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Finished doing annual oil and filter change on my 993. In the garage and up on a lift! Also the weather was very pleasant here in Florida...
Tomorrow I will go for a nice drive... I had the car detailed last week and this is one sharp looking ride!!!
Had a weird one today.. I stopped at the local gas station after the gym and happened to run into a friend who was in his 992 but just picked up a 993 C4S and offered to show it to me. I attempted to start my 993 to follow him and realized the key fob battery was dead. No problem I thought since I have 2 spare new batteries. Problem #1 - while I had the batteries, I didn’t have a small Philips head screwdriver. Thankfully a cable company truck driver getting gas next to me had one so got the fob opened. Problem #2 - after putting in the new/never used M23 battery into the fob, it still didn’t work. Looked at the freshly opened package and the batteries were good until 2015… ugh. OK, no problem, I have the spare fob at home. Ask my friend to drive me home to pick up the spare, back to the gas station (thanks friend!). Problem #3 - try to unlock the car with the spare fob (which had flashed the LED when I tried it at home) and I guess it only had one activation in it because now it too is totally dead… Ugh… Ask friend to drive me to hardware store nearby then back to the car with brand new (good until 2027!) battery and it finally works and I can start the car. Yeah! Thanks friend.
Then I follow him home to check out his new to him 993 (that he hasn’t driven yet because he is waiting on plates) and while poking around…. Problem #4 - somehow he drops his AirPods into the engine bay and the case opens and drops both AirPods. We retrieved the case and one AirPods pretty easily but the second one is pretty deep in the fan housing. So now I’m home charging my borescope camera and getting extractors and other tools to drive back to his place and try to retrieve the lost airpod…
This is not how I expected today to go…
P.S. consider this a reminder to make sure you have spare FRESH batteries for your fob if you don’t want to be stranded and rely on serendipitous run-ins with a friend.
Hey Rudy, that seems a little too coincidental that neither a new (albeit stale and perhaps a bit less potent) battery AND your alternate fob all failed at at the same time.
More likely this is a failing (or full dead) capacitor in the alarm remote unit.
Mine was doing something similar, i.e. the range was steadily decreasing, to the point where I had to stand right next to the door and point the fob inside the window, or it would not open at all. It finally failed to open during a road trip, and I went through The same headache with replacing the battery it helped little if at all.
When I got home, I searched here on the board for similar issues, and found this thread detailing the repair:
After doing the fix, the range on my fob is now the entire length of my driveway, around 25 or 30 feet.
If you’re at all handy with electronics, it won’t be difficult to DIY, parts are readily available at DigiKey, but if you are unfamiliar with electronics, there are services you can send it for this repair.
Last edited by bcameron59; 01-29-2023 at 05:14 PM.
Hey Rudy, that seems a little too coincidental that neither a new (albeit stale and perhaps a bit less potent) battery AND your alternate fob all failed at at the same time.
More likely this is a failing (or full dead) capacitor in the alarm remote unit.
Mine was doing something similar, i.e. the range was steadily decreasing, to the point where I had to stand right next to the door and point the fob inside the window, or it would not open at all. It finally failed to open during a road trip, and I went through The same headache with replacing the battery it helped little if at all.
When I got home, I searched here on the board for similar issues, and found this thread detailing the repair:
After doing the fix, the range on my fob is now the entire length of my driveway, around 25 or 30 feet.
If you’re at all handy with electronics, it won’t be difficult to DIY, parts are readily available at DigiKey, but if you are unfamiliar with electronics, there are services you can send it for this repair.
Thanks - that sounds like it definitely could be part of the issue because my fob range is pretty bad (maybe 5-8 ft). It is working again now on both fobs with real fresh batteries but I wouldn't doubt that my capacitors are on their last legs just because the range is terrible. I'll have to look into that. The soldering does worry me a bit for DIY. I can solder but it's not always pretty and I'm not sure I trust myself on something small, fragile and hard to replace. May warrant professional help.
Oh - and we managed to recover the AWOL Airpod in my friend's car with a magnetic retriever and my little borescope camera. So hurray on that front!
The "fun" item is getting the door check strap repaired, which decided to choose violence just as I prepped the car for winter. The lower outer "spot" weld has a horizontal crack but the door works fine (for now!) but has started to click where the two halves of the weld rub, and can only go downhill from there.
$1800 (all in) to get the driver's side door strap fixed here in NY/NJ. Oof.
Then I follow him home to check out his new to him 993 (that he hasn’t driven yet because he is waiting on plates) and while poking around…. Problem #4 - somehow he drops his AirPods into the engine bay and the case opens and drops both AirPods. We retrieved the case and one AirPods pretty easily but the second one is pretty deep in the fan housing. So now I’m home charging my borescope camera and getting extractors and other tools to drive back to his place and try to retrieve the lost airpod…
01-24-2023, 08:28 PM
