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Model 3 Key Fob is here: $150
- Thread starter BobAbooey
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Please provide a link to the Electrek story you are referring to, because I think you are incorrect.
I searched Electrek for all their stories about the Model 3 fob. See https://electrek.co/?s=Model+3+key+fob
I cannot find anything on Electrek saying that Tesla would be giving free key fobs to Model 3 owners.
diamond.g
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RayK
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Just to be totally clear... the keycard can only be detected by placing it up against the driver's side B-pillar. There is no electronics/sensor on the passenger side to read the card. The keycard WILL unlock all of the doors but only when presented on the driver's side. Therefore, if you wanted to open either passenger-side door of your locked 3, and you don't/won't/can't rely on your smartphone, you have to go to the driver's side first to unlock the car.
A fob, either with or without passive unlocking, would be better in this situation then the keycard. I've only been using my phone-as-key for about three weeks, despite having the car since July. A rough guess of my success rate for the phone unlocking the 3 when I walk up to it is about 95%. Several times I had to use the keycard to unlock (if I'm really impatient), cycle airplane mode or wait about 10 seconds before the car detects my phone, all the while I'm pushing on the door handle and screen says to use the keycard. The phone is either in my shirt pocket or clipped to my belt on my right hip. For me my phone is not 100% and I was looking forward to replacing all of my keycards (now 4 of them) with fobs. But at $150 a shot, that's not going to happen.
Birdman325
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Even though my phone has been just about 100% reliable I can see the advantage of coming out of a store for example with stuff in your hands. Easier to unlock the car / trunk etc with a fob.
If you give someone the fob and they don’t have the key card, I assume they can unlock the door and then drive away? Meaning, the fob unlocks, but then (of course) also lets you drive correct? You don’t also need the card or the phone to drive. (I assume that’s right)
If you give someone the fob and they don’t have the key card, I assume they can unlock the door and then drive away? Meaning, the fob unlocks, but then (of course) also lets you drive correct? You don’t also need the card or the phone to drive. (I assume that’s right)
BluestarE3
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Yes, fob lets you drive. From reading the manual, it works like the S w/ passive entry turned off.
Unlock the doors with the fob. Start the car within 2-3 minutes. If you wait longer, then you need to press the unlock button on the fob again. Or, in this case optionally put the fob on the center console.
If you put the car in park, open the door, get out, get back in, you need to click again (or place on center console) for the car to know it's you again.
sduck
Mr. Duck
Oh, I thought you were talking about "something that reliably opens and operates the car" as that was all you mentioned originally.
So is wood paneling, but there's no option for the dashboard.
Yes it was. And that story — based on an unnamed source — has now been shown to be inaccurate.
@voip-ninja, Electrek never claimed that Tesla was going to give free fobs to Model 3 owners.
After following Tesla for many years now, I remain amazed at how rumors and unsubstantiated assertions are quickly accepted by some people as fact and then endlessly repeated.
diamond.g
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Or all the on-ramp to off-ramp features 8.1 was going to bring like freeway interchange capability to AP. It turned out to mostly be media player updates.
contaygious
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If you have a phone that works 100% of the time and your hands are full why would you want to take out a fob to hit a button when you can just lift the trunk with they same hand?
I use the phone all the time. It works to open the car all the time but sometimes I have to touch the door handle to wake up the phone and car connection. No big deal.
The new fob is great so I can keep my card in my wallet for emergency if I ever need it and I can now give the fob to the valet or my kids. Makes it more convenient.
Glad I ordered it already since it is in back order already.
The new fob is great so I can keep my card in my wallet for emergency if I ever need it and I can now give the fob to the valet or my kids. Makes it more convenient.
Glad I ordered it already since it is in back order already.
you know you could have just ordered another card for $5 to give to valet or kids rather than spending $150 for a fob, right?
2012MS85
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White interiorSo is wood paneling, but there's no option for the dashboard.
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RayK
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There's that $5/keycard figure again. I was charged $20 each for a pair of cards last week at the Santa Clara Service Center. Mind telling them to change their ordering/inventory system to the lower price?
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