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**Rain Man** · 09:35 PM

So I had a rental car on a business trip, and the rental car was doing well. It was a newish Chevrolet Malibu. At some point a few days ago, I pulled into a hotel parking lot. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the hotel was on a Native American reservation.

Boom.

The turnoff was weird, and I got a message on the instrument panel that the car did not detect a key fob. This is problematic for a variety of reasons.

The logical conclusion is that the battery died. I'm not a handy guy, but with the help of youtube I figured out how to change it. I was lucky that the hotel was next door to a grocery store that carried that type of battery.

I went up to my hotel room, switched the battery out, and went downstairs to test it. As I was walking toward the car, the car alarm started going off on the vehicle next to mine, which was a newish Nissan SUV.

A guy got out of the Nissan. "Sorry about the noise," he said. "I pulled in here and parked, and my key fob died, and I can't figure out how to fix it."

At that point I tested mine and it didn't work, either. I was able to pilot it back to the rental car agency by using a secret trick that I learned on youtube. It involved removing a piece of trim from the door and putting the dead fob in a specific spot in the car, and it was black magic.

The rental car woman seemed like a longtime rental veteran, and she was friendly. She noticed that the car had 2,000 miles on it and said there's no way that the battery should have died. I told her about the Nissan next to mine, and we puzzled over what happened, and if the two failures were related. It seems really odd that two key fobs on two adjacent cars would fail as they were both parking.

What are your theories?

**Baby Lee** · 07-18-2022, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlaChief58

Mama said nanobots are da debil

Because the mendulla allagonza?

[not gonna subject the BB to the Roy Orbison tattoo

]

Simply Red · 07-18-2022, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by listopencil

Radio frequency interference.

yes that's the correct answer.

View Poll Results: What happened in the great key fob massacre?
Criminals were destroying key fobs with plans of stealing the cars that night.	2	4.26%
It’s a coincidence. These things happen, and the fobs just lose their pairing with the car when the batteries are replaced.	4	8.51%
It’s a coincidence. These things happen, and the grocery store was selling dud batteries.	0	0%
Sunspots. Something about sunspots.	4	8.51%
The hotel had some sort of equipment that was putting out electromagnetic pulses.	8	17.02%
The hotel was on an Indian burial ground, and key fobs are cursed.	12	25.53%
The Native Americans are counterattacking against Manifest Destiny with electronic warfare.	1	2.13%
The other guy was a serial killer trying to draw you in, but couldn't get the jump on you.	1	2.13%
The other guy was faking it to be sympathetic.	0	0%
The two key fobs somehow interacted and destroyed each other.	2	4.26%
You were probably low on key fob fluid.	6	12.77%
There's some other obvious answer that I will describe below.	0	0%
There are some mysteries that we are not meant to know.	5	10.64%
What is a key fob?	2	4.26%
Voters: 47. You may not vote on this poll

07-16-2022, 09:29 PM
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-482449 VARSITY	A key fob mystery to solve. So I had a rental car on a business trip, and the rental car was doing well. It was a newish Chevrolet Malibu. At some point a few days ago, I pulled into a hotel parking lot. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the hotel was on a Native American reservation. Boom. The turnoff was weird, and I got a message on the instrument panel that the car did not detect a key fob. This is problematic for a variety of reasons. The logical conclusion is that the battery died. I'm not a handy guy, but with the help of youtube I figured out how to change it. I was lucky that the hotel was next door to a grocery store that carried that type of battery. I went up to my hotel room, switched the battery out, and went downstairs to test it. As I was walking toward the car, the car alarm started going off on the vehicle next to mine, which was a newish Nissan SUV. A guy got out of the Nissan. "Sorry about the noise," he said. "I pulled in here and parked, and my key fob died, and I can't figure out how to fix it." At that point I tested mine and it didn't work, either. I was able to pilot it back to the rental car agency by using a secret trick that I learned on youtube. It involved removing a piece of trim from the door and putting the dead fob in a specific spot in the car, and it was black magic. The rental car woman seemed like a longtime rental veteran, and she was friendly. She noticed that the car had 2,000 miles on it and said there's no way that the battery should have died. I told her about the Nissan next to mine, and we puzzled over what happened, and if the two failures were related. It seems really odd that two key fobs on two adjacent cars would fail as they were both parking. What are your theories? Last edited by Rain Man; 07-16-2022 at 09:35 PM..
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