Car Remote Fob in the Washing? - How to Fix!

My car key / fob went through a full washing machine wash and spin dry and stopped working. Here I show how I brought them back to life! Not always guaranteed but this has worked a couple of times for me on different cars. This time it was my Jaguar / Land rover keys for the F-Pace. All fully working again now. Please subscribe if you find it useful.

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[thetruthinsports]

Wow. This is so great. I left our key fob in another country while on vacation we got back to the airport where our car was parked at the hotel and we didn't have the key. A locksmith charged us $375 to program a new key and we had to spend the night at a hotel until he could do it the next day. We have been home for 2 weeks and my wife left this key in her pocket in the laundry and we are going out of town today. We only have one key. I saw this video and my wife went to workout she came back and we followed the video. She was confused as to why I was using WD-40. I did everything and went out to the car and praise God it worked! Thank you so much for your video.

[nathanaelbartholomew]

My sister went into the pool with my fob. 😂😂😂 We were nearly stranded. Used the emergency key position to start the car. Next day i watched your video, which is today. Boom, the key works again. I just opened it and dried it up. Thanks for sharing, if i knew yesterday that I could open it up and dried it, i could have saved myself some drama because it looked like we stole car. The alarms in the car were screaming at times and we could not stop them because the key was not functioning.

[colinsherwood]

Thanks for this tip, wash it a year ago and then couldn't get to work, having followed your video the fob is now up and working again. Long health and happiness to you.

[lmhnfmt]

The best video save yet, thanks so much for posting. Dropped my wife's key fob into my drink and could not find the extra fob. Her car was stranded about 8 miles from home. this worked and saved me some serious grief. Thanks so much.

[Jdubd]

This worked I just replaced the battery after keeping the key in rice !! Thank you ❤

[ymrgmev]

I used this instruction today for my 2014 Jeep and it worked! Thank you! Replacing these is a small fortune of not only money but also stress - which you saved me both!

[patt]

Thank you for this. Got in the pool with the car key in my pocket some months ago. Shop said they couldnt do anything about it anymore. This saved my key (and wallet). Thank you!

[susanwood]

Wow! Thank you…it worked. You saved me a lot of money.

[ayaskosana]

Yesterday my boyfriend dropped his car keys in water and he took the keys to someone who charged him R950 for reprogramming the key but they negotiated the price and he paid R300 but when he got to the car...key didn't work and when he went back to the guy, he said my boyfriend should bring R2800 for a new key...as we were busy thinking of what to do...I went on google and Google referred me to this video.Am coming back here to say thank you Mr for this video..my boyfriend is driving his car now and everything is fine...thank you so much 🙏this video saved us R2800 thank God

[cmair]

Thank you thank you, dealer here in Toronto was quoting me 800 plus taxes for a replacement and reprogramming, thanks to your vid I replaced the battery for 3 bucks, dried out my fob with some tissue and it's working just fine. Can't thank you enough.

[seanysean]

You absolute legend. My wife’s Eqvoqie key stopped working after getting water in fob. Been looking into replacements which are ££££ your video worked. If you’re ever in Cornwall, I owe you a beer!

[nodrama]

Thank you for this video! I realized mine was in the pocket of my jeans after the wash had begun agitating but before the spin cycle -- so there was a lot of water but not too much friction just yet. I knew I needed to remove the circuit board, but was afraid of damaging it in doing so -- but thanks to your video I knew how to remove it.

I have been saving up those desiccant packets that come with stuff you buy (for this type of purpose, in case I ever needed to dry out electronics exposed to water). So I sandwiched the circuit board between two of those, and sandwiched the battery between two of them, and left it overnight to dry (and I dried off the rest of the unit with a paper towel). We live in the desert, so that helped a lot. I didn't wind up with any corrosion to the unit, so I didn't need to do any extra steps... and today the key fob works!! Thank you so much!

[DollsbyOlia]

Thank you so much for saving the car opener thingy! It works again! Changed the battery too.

[tylercarpenter]

Saved me a new key fob thank you so much for the helpful video!

[johnlin]

Thank you so much for this video, got my key fob working again without having to get a new one from dealership which can be expensive.

[leannemccormack]

Great thank you, saved my key, had tried everything else & this worked!

[lottesloan]

Thanks so much for posting this video! A new fob was going to cost $700 here in Canada.

[mcnismo]

Thank you very much my friend. You just saved me £200. Mobile mechanic told me new key immobilisier bla bla, just opened up my self some wd40 cleaned and worked perfectly. Thank you 1000 times

[keybakibba]

Thank you for saving me from a full wash and heat dried one 🙏🏾

[Lana.Lulu.]

It works for garage door remotes as well!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!🙏