NM, LOL.. I'll just try the glue and if it don't work, I'll take a deep breath and try the solder method...

Donnie

NO GLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:willy::ack: Glue is NON Conductive. That would most likely cause it to get WORSE!:thumbs:

I tried soldering those contacts long ago when I still had my '99. It didn't work for me. Reading this thread today, I pulled out the old fobs and looked them over closely with a scope. They were and are still making the proper electrical connections and they were still bad.

OK, someone who has successfully done this want to give me a price to do my old one for me? :lurk:

Bill,

Thanks for the heads up! I'll just see if I can get the tip of my iron on there...

DZ

nice post. Thanks

I have an advantage! Fasthotrod is close by! Oh Mark, another request for help!:D

Several things are possible here.

(1) You may have what's known in the electronics world as a "cold" solder joint. It may appear to be good visually but the microcircuit lead may not have been cleaned properly before soldering, resulting in a solder connection that went bad over time.

(2) You microcircuit may be bad. Only fix would be to solder in a new microcircuit...

(3) You may have a "cold" solder joint somewhere else other than the six points indicated in the post above.

(4) Gremlins - Those things are almost impossible to find.

Good luck.

I have a FOB that exhibits this problem. I'm going to go check it now.

Was about to buy a new fob and I saw this post. After sync, it would work for about 10 minutes and then stop--every time. Makes sense. With a magnafying glass, I could see the contacts broken. Was probably done during battery replacement. Has been working now for an hour. Thanks for the info.

This worked great! Fobs were always losing sync. I assumed bad batteries but that didn't work either. Checked the solder joints and they "looked" good but...a quick hit with the solder and gun and they're working well for 2 weeks now. Thanks.

You got it, bud. Bring it to our next GTG and I'll take it home and solder it for you. :thumbs:

Mark

:lurk::D

PM me. I got a new soldering staton with a flow gun and want to try it out.

I'm gonna try this tonight. I've got another question though, something on my circuit board sounds like it has something rolling around inside. Does the little silver cylinder have a ball in it?

Man, wish I knew about this a few months ago, I threw out 2 2000 fobs due to them not working :(, my current one works when it wants to so maybe I need to do this to mine

Yup, that's for the passive entry feature. When the ball rolls around it sends out an unlock signal. :thumbs:

Cool, learn something new every day.

So, for those of you that have done this, has it worked?

Sometimes you can fix it , sometimes the fob is just bad even after fixing it. I did the same to the 2000 I had a few years ago and it worked for a while, then the fob just died.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
 

Thank you, I have gone a few months without the FOB working....was going to replace the entire system UNTIL I read this. I repaired the broken "legs" and the FOB now works. Thank You, Thank You