Key Fob Battery Replacement

After 5+ years of use the battery in my key fob has become unreliable and the range has gone down to inches. I followed the how to links and it is really quite easy to do, the thing that intriqued me was the battery. It is a standard BIOS battery off on any motherboard and my IT department happened to have a bushel of them. They are the CR2032 batteries, should be minimum cost, free if you know a computer geek. With the new battery and a small flat bladed screwdriver I was good to go in less than 3 minutes.

Impressed that the single battery lasted more than 5 years and that it was something logical, the fob is just a circuit board, why not use the standard battery in the computer industry that maintains memory on circuit boards - I like that kind of thinking, wonder if all fobs are standard?

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=879114

This is a how to.

Thanks for the link Lefty. This just saved me a ton of time. Asked the dealer to do it for me, they couldn't be bothered to spend 5 minutes (my time to swap out 2 FOB batteries) helping a customer out. Oh well, TDIclub to the rescue again.

If you don't know a computer geek, you can also go to Radioshack. They'll install them without additional charge.