What happens to Audi Keyfob on a 60 degree 1400 spin wash?
What happens to Audi Keyfob on a 60 degree 1400 spin wash?
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s3fella

Original Poster:

10,524 posts

216 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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.......it comes out nice and clean......

If it happens to you (!) dont press any buttons, disassemble it, battery the lot, stick it on the rad for three hours, reassemble and try it.....it did not work at first, opened the car with the key, started it up, all ok, turned it off, and hey presto, the kefob locked it. Unlocked it, locked it again!

Not recommended, but if you are a twonk like me, dont panic!!

BTW, Audi dealer who I called about it while it was drying, said it would be knackered and wanted £460 for a new key! !

Silverbullet767

11,234 posts

235 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Now, if you washed it at 30 degrees you could have saved a polar bear.

tut tut.

Shaw Tarse

31,886 posts

232 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Shame on you!!


You should be washing @ 30 degrees!! wink
Burger beaten by Silverbullet redface

Edited by Shaw Tarse on Monday 2nd February 16:33

TheEnd

15,370 posts

217 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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I can't believe you killed a polar bear just for that.
Will someone please think of the bears.

rhinochopig

17,932 posts

227 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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My phone went through a 40 wash in my cycling shorts and that survived after a drying session on the rad. Camera is fubar, but the phone still works.

s3fella

Original Poster:

10,524 posts

216 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Shaw Tarse said:
Shame on you!!


You should be washing @ 30 degrees!! wink
Burger beaten by Silverbullet redface

Edited by Shaw Tarse on Monday 2nd February 16:33
My daughter has this winter vomitting bug and threw up all over me at 9pm last night! Hence chucking it all in the washer without properly checking the pockets and the need for 60 degrees (highly contagious this bug!)

When the keys were recovered this AM, it all went back through again at 40!!! !

s3fella

Original Poster:

10,524 posts

216 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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TheEnd said:
I can't believe you killed a polar bear just for that.
Will someone please think of the bears.
What did they ever do for me? They come over here, pedalling their mints....

wink

aclivity

4,072 posts

217 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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s3fella said:
TheEnd said:
I can't believe you killed a polar bear just for that.
Will someone please think of the bears.
What did they ever do for me? They come over here, pedalling their mints....

wink
I've never seen pedal powered mints. Are they like two polos with some kind of chain drive?

markmullen

15,877 posts

263 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Top end Motorola bluetooth headsets don't fare as well frown

TWSTEEL

1,099 posts

218 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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You could always do less damage to it by running it over with a steamroller.
If you wanted to?

Sciroccology

29,908 posts

259 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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s3fella said:
and wanted £460 for a new key! !
How much?

elster

17,517 posts

239 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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However I did find my screwdriver did win the battle between the washing machine.

markmullen

15,877 posts

263 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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elster said:
However I did find my screwdriver did win the battle between the washing machine.
My mum's old washing machine lost the battle with handfuls of air rifle ammunition.

How popular was I? hehe

Mattt

16,664 posts

247 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Sciroccology said:
s3fella said:
and wanted £460 for a new key! !
How much?
£460

Shaw Tarse

31,886 posts

232 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Sciroccology said:
s3fella said:
and wanted £460 for a new key! !
How much?
£ Fourcensored and hundred censored and sixty!
Whatever happened to popping to the local cobbler & having a key cut!

TWSTEEL

1,099 posts

218 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Was that the key fob you had in the wallet you lost?
The one you're going to report to the police tomow morning?
You only had around £30 cash in it and no credit or debit cards but you DID have your key fob in it.
The nice policemen will then give you a crime report reference number and your nice insurance company (probably home rather than motor) will buy you a nice shiny new one once you've got the reference number.
It's just a case of getting the sequence of events right wink

bigburd

2,670 posts

229 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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s3fella said:
Shaw Tarse said:
Shame on you!!


You should be washing @ 30 degrees!! wink
Burger beaten by Silverbullet redface

Edited by Shaw Tarse on Monday 2nd February 16:33
My daughter has this winter vomitting bug and threw up all over me at 9pm last night! Hence chucking it all in the washer without properly checking the pockets and the need for 60 degrees (highly contagious this bug!)

When the keys were recovered this AM, it all went back through again at 40!!! !
And none of your clothes shrunk?

Silverbullet767

11,234 posts

235 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Mattt said:
Sciroccology said:
s3fella said:
and wanted £460 for a new key! !
How much?
£460
You sure?

Shaw Tarse

31,886 posts

232 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Silverbullet767 said:
Mattt said:
Sciroccology said:
s3fella said:
and wanted £460 for a new key! !
How much?
£460
You sure?
I'm Shaw!!

Racefan_uk

2,935 posts

285 months

Monday 2nd February 2009
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Weird, my Audi dealership charged me 100 quid for my replacement spare key fob a few years ago. I wouldn't have thought they had gone up 300% in that time!