<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I have a Mazda 6 with the pushbutton start. My key just stopped working one day. If I pressed hard on the case, sometimes it would work. Figured it was the battery. Changed it and still nothing. Opened it back up and looked closely at the battery contacts. The negative ones on the side were misaligned and not torching the battery properly. Got a small screwdriver and carefully adjusted them. I also bent the positive contact to give it more tension against the battery. It has worked ever since. I believe the positive contact caused the problem since sometimes it would work when I pressed on the case.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope this helps</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jim D</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Galaxy</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Larry Mayfield via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net> </div><div>Date: 3/3/23 1:34 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: sara-list@googlegroups.com, 'Tigers Den' <tigers@autox.team.net> </div><div>Subject: [Tigers] Non Astronomy Question </div><div><br></div></div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I have an od issue with our Lincoln Towncar, a 2009 version. My son has a home in Las Vegas and we visit occasionally. Last two times we have experienced a failure of both of our remote key fobs We arrive and when we go to lock the car out front at the curb , neither will function! Has happened twice now. We took the fob apart and cleaned it with a Q tp and alcohol and saw nothing amiss and put it back together. When we get ready to leave and return home to Pahrump, we use the actual key to unlock because it still wouldn’t work, then start and drive away. No issues driving the 60 miles or so to our place, but, and this is the interesting point, both key fobs now work normally: the door locks work just fine with the fobs, the trunk opens and closes with the fobs. And I had changed the CR2032 batteries not long ago. They both checked at full voltage.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Puzzled, I am. Any of you ever had such an issue? And if so, the fix was? Even if you have never had the problem, got any ideas as to the cause? </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance and please excuse my use to the forum for this.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Larry</p><p class="MsoNormal">Pahrump</p></div></body></html>