how to get spare key?
I just bought an Impreza 2015 manual Subaru & to tow it I need to keep the key in the ignition & on "on". I always have the car locked when I tow it so I need to have a key to open the door to retriev...
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RoyB wrote:
My last two Ford Trucks came with the push button door access. This pretty much solved my problem of keeping all of spare keys in the truck glove box...
I guess if the truck battery is run down I would have a problem getting in without a key??? Hopefully I could back feed 12VDC from the trailer connector??? will have to test that idea...
I am also leary of removing my battery terminals as when I did that a couple years back replacing an alternator on my older truck the on-board computer lost its settings and I had problems after that mainly with idling at too low of RPMs and motor dying. Manual said ti would repair itself but never did. I finally had to take it back to ford to put on their $90 per hour computer charge to reset things back to normal...
Roy Ken
I'm not sure what the problem was with your truck, but it's certainly unusual. We leave our 2010 Expedition (which is identically equipped to your F150) in the garage with the battery disconnected for months at a time with no ill effects. Whenever we take the motorhome out for trips longer than 30 days we disconnect the batteries on the truck and our Buick. We've been gone as long as 3 months and never had a problem with either vehicle when we return. Over the years I've had several Ford trucks, and have always disconnected the battery when it was stored more than 30 days. There's never been a problem with the computer(s) when the battery was reconnected
In addition there is a battery disconnect switch for the chassis battery in our motorhome built on the ford F53 chassis. Anytime it's in storage the battery is disconnected. As with the other vehicles there's never been a problem with the computer or any other function.
