Disabling the Panic button on the key fab
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Disabling the Panic button on the key fab
Hi guys and gals,
You'll get a kick out of this story. Here we are parked with our 5th wheel and 2006 F350. It is late at night and I just can't take myself away from the little camp fire, I have going. Everybody else in the park is in bed.
I have the truck keys in my pocket. While stowing away the chairs and stereo for the night, I must have pressed on my jean pocket and hit the "Panic" button. Now the lights are going on and the horn is going on and all hell breaks loose.
My keys are hooked on a thread at the bottom of my pocket and it feels like an eternity before I can get them out. It is so picth black that I can't find the panic button for a few more seconds. Then finally I turned it off.
Needless to say that I wasn't the most popular fellow in the camp ground that night :-)
Is there a way for me to turn that off??? Since I have done this 3 times since!!
Cheers and many thanks.
Al
You'll get a kick out of this story. Here we are parked with our 5th wheel and 2006 F350. It is late at night and I just can't take myself away from the little camp fire, I have going. Everybody else in the park is in bed.
I have the truck keys in my pocket. While stowing away the chairs and stereo for the night, I must have pressed on my jean pocket and hit the "Panic" button. Now the lights are going on and the horn is going on and all hell breaks loose.
My keys are hooked on a thread at the bottom of my pocket and it feels like an eternity before I can get them out. It is so picth black that I can't find the panic button for a few more seconds. Then finally I turned it off.
Needless to say that I wasn't the most popular fellow in the camp ground that night :-)
Is there a way for me to turn that off??? Since I have done this 3 times since!!
Cheers and many thanks.
Al
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I'm not sure if it would work for a keyfob, but there is a trick I have used many times on telephones to make the buttons not work. If you can open the keyfob up there should be a place on the circuit board where the back of the rubber panic button hits and closes the circuit. You should be able to put a small piece of electrical tape over that section of the circuitboard which will in turn disable that button. Then if you ever decide to undo this you can just peel the tape off and clean it up a bit and it should work again. Hope this helps.
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It was the house phone at my fraternity, we needed it to be able to recieve calls, but not make outgoing calls. The phone company there charged for outgoing minutes, and they charged to block outgoing calls so I just took it apart and covered up the contacts for all the numbers. It worked great.
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