Flaking Paint & Key FOB programing
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Flaking Paint & Key FOB programing
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Two unrelated questions on the wife's 2012 Explorer.
1: One of the key FOBs stop working the lock/unlock. The transponder part still works (starts the car), but the buttons won't work. I could not find a thread on this here and the google search findings don't work (not surprised). If any has ideas before I go to the Dealer that would be great.
2: Does any know if Ford is covering part or all of the cost for repainting the hood? It seems like this is a wide spread problem. I saw some posts but didn't find anything definitive. Again any insight would be great.
Thanks
Two unrelated questions on the wife's 2012 Explorer.
1: One of the key FOBs stop working the lock/unlock. The transponder part still works (starts the car), but the buttons won't work. I could not find a thread on this here and the google search findings don't work (not surprised). If any has ideas before I go to the Dealer that would be great.
2: Does any know if Ford is covering part or all of the cost for repainting the hood? It seems like this is a wide spread problem. I saw some posts but didn't find anything definitive. Again any insight would be great.
Thanks
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About all I can offer is: based on what you said about "one of the key fobs not working", can we assume you have two fobs and the other one *is* working? If so, then it certainly would seem to be a bad fob, rather than an issue in the vehicle. I don't know any way that the various remote functions could be disabled independently, so other than trying a new battery there's not much I can think of to do other than to get a new fob.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes the other FOB works fine and I did change the Batt in the bad one. Must be a bad FOB, just strange that it went bad as it is the spare that hardly gets used. But I guess with Electrical parts lack of use doesn't always mean that it won't go bad.
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I don't think Ford is going to pay anything for the peeling paint. My '14 Sport started peeling after about 2 years and a friend's Mustang looks like confetti on the front edge of the hood. Apparently some sort of problem with galvanic corrosion that is well known. It's so well known that a bunch of people in California sued Ford and lost because the judge ruled that they hadn't suffered a measurable economic loss.
When I traded my '14 Sport The dealer even assured me that they weren't even concerned with the crappy looking hood. I guess they weren't since they gave me the high end of the trade-in estimate value.
It does seem as though they've solved whatever the problem was with the newer models though.
When I traded my '14 Sport The dealer even assured me that they weren't even concerned with the crappy looking hood. I guess they weren't since they gave me the high end of the trade-in estimate value.
It does seem as though they've solved whatever the problem was with the newer models though.
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