Yea that is a good thing to remember. So pretty much keep the spare hidden in a faraday bag and learn how to use the Sirius remote access and you will be in good shape. I do lots of water and outdoor activities (fishing, boating, hiking, hunting, and running at parks) where I could easily loose the keys. I've seen the hitch key lock and thought about buying it instead of hiding my key (what i do now).
I have to laugh about keys, I had two old /2 BMW's, their key fit all /2's, it was just a nail with a groove that would hold it in place, all it did was push down on a contact and if you didn't have a key, any nail would do, just had to watch it bouncing out.
No, the battery in the FOB has no direct link to the operation of the truck. It affects convenience features, but not the ability to start and drive.
That's a very interesting point. If the battery dies, you can start the vehicle with the secondary chip in the fob, and the vehicle has no way to know if that's in it or not. It only activates when you press it into the start button. Maybe that's why the park doesn't lock either. You may have just explained the whole thing.
Correct- to be detected, but it doesn’t need a battery to stay running, or to start the vehicle. If there is no battery in the fob, you just push the start button with the fob itself. Once running, you’ll get a random key fob not detected message.
And that's exactly why the vehicle can't be shut off or locked into park if the key is out of it (or battery dies).
No, it’s a purpose designed feature to have a compromise between an owner and a thief since the RF Hub can’t make that distinction. It is to give the owner a chance to turn around and retrieve a somehow forgotten fob, and at the same time, if someone steals the vehicle while you leave it running with the fob on you, they can only drive it until they shut it off.
My Nissan behaves the same way. It also lets you push the FOB against the Start button to drive it when the FOB battery is dead. It's a 2013 model.
