2020 GMC HD Reveal

Groover wrote:

4x4ord wrote:
I appreciate every option my truck has other than push button start. Problems I have with it are:

Poor battery life;
I sometimes forget the fob in the truck;
I've driven up to my house with the fob in my coat pocket and left the truck running while I quickly ran into the house to get something. I came back without my coat on, jumped in the truck and drove into town. When I shut the truck off it said "restart immediately or key will be required". I didn't have time to go home so I ended up asking my wife to deliver my key fob to me;
If it were a zero dollar option I definitely wouldn't take it.

I have two vehicles with push button start. The Kia is almost obnoxious about making sure that you have a fob with you and not locked in the car. It is a 2011 model and I have replaced the fob battery once. The Ford also notifies me immediately about no fob in the vehicle and it is nearly 3 years old with the fob battery still going strong so no concern there either way. I do wonder what would happen if the fob got really wet or damaged somehow. The only actual issue that I have had is our luggage was stolen on a trip once with the Kia fob in it and a replacement fob was $500 plus a special trip to the dealer. Ouch! Fortunately, the other fob was safe and available to us.

My truck doesn't have keyless. I wish it did.

I travel for my job pretty much every week. Sometimes that means multiple trips and multiple rental cars. I don't know how you could forget you left the fob in the car, and I certainly don't know how you could drive off without the fob (even in the circumstances mentioned above). EVERY manufacture I have driven, and I have driven most of them, have blatant warnings to prevent such a thing.

And I don't think the fobs are any more fragile than the newer keys with a microchip. My wife ruined the key to her 300 two years ago. Looks like she spilled something on it when I opened it up to try to replace the battery, and it was dead. Chrysler wanted over $200 for a new one, and then there is a charge to program it. I found an aftermarket key on eBay for considerably less. I am sure the same will be true for the fobs.