Toyota Yaris Remote
It’s raining and you don’t have an umbrella and need to get into the car that you carelessly parked way up the street. The backpack hurting your back, you reach within 5 meters of the car and press the remote unlock.
Whilst dodging that puddle that’s guarding the driver side you grab the door handle and the f*** door is still locked!!!
Fumbling around for the remote again, the puddle that definitely wasn’t there when you parked the car, invades your sneakers. Jeans are now a mess. The socks are now soaked as the toes attempt an escape through the sneaker air vent.
So with a wet backpack busting your back, the remote gets pressed again and again.
The driver door stays locked.
Bugger! Now in desperation, I took the key – struggled – and finally found the slot that I’d never used since purchasing the Toyota Yaris five years ago.
With the rain still belting down, I started looking for an off street park near my unit.
Parked again, the Yaris remote ignored my wishes again.
Bugger!!!
The sudden loss of remote functionality seemed linked to the battery. Doing some research I found that the car-remotes should last about 5 to 10 years between battery changes.
Since I only use the car maybe once a week, I figured I should be closer to the 10 year interval.
- Replace the remote battery is easy then supposedly all is sweet.
- Replace the remote battery and then the remote must be reprogrammed?
So Friday morning I visited the Southside Toyota Service Department in Woolloongabba, Queensland.
They didn’t have a remote battery but could order it for $30AUD. When I mentioned to the salesmen that I really needed my remote, he suggested that I visit Jaycar Electronics Woolloongabba .
I asked for remote battery and got the expected Lithium CR2016 for only $2.95AUD.
From the following pictures should help the first time remote control virgin.
Yaris Remote Control opened up
Now applying a 5mm blade screw driver again…
The coin sized CR2016 battery
With battery replaced, remote light appears but still nothing happens.
The doors stay locked. F***, looks like I’m gonna have to follow the reprogramming steps that were posted by “CTScott” in the forum article http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20865 .
Slightly peeved, I hoped into the car using the actual key. Later I got to the organic markets and pressed the remote lock out of habit and the car locked!!!
Awesome!!!
Then later in the afternoon, I sent remote unlock – great. Got back to the off street park and sent a remote lock.
The Yaris ignored me. Do I have to reprogram or chuck and get a new remote?
