When you "Walk away with Key to let computer reset" technique, how about spare key?

[ulflyer]

When you "Walk away with Key to let computer reset" technique, how about spare key?

When Nanny throws a code/orange light and one walks away with the key and waits a few minutes to see if it will reset, does a hidden spare key with electronic chip also need to be removed? I would think so, but don't recall anyone mentioning it one way or the other.

 

[TuckMiddle]

When Nanny throws a code/orange light and one walks away with the key and waits a few minutes to see if it will reset, does a hidden spare key with electronic chip also need to be removed? I would think so, but don't recall anyone mentioning it one way or the other.

I've wondered also. But, every time I do the reset trick, it always works with the spare key still "hidden" on the Spyder.
I just went out to make sure it's still there, glad you brought it up. It's been there 2 years. With all the heat, the chip is probably "denatured" anyway

Tuck

 

[CyncySpyder]

Curious ....... I'll add our experiences to the mix

I know I've read many different ways to go about doing a 'soft reset' of the codes/warnings, but I just thought I'd share how we do it & it seems to have worked every time we've done it :thumbup:

Starting with the Spyder off, but making sure the Panic Button is set to run, I just flip the key in the ignition 3 times pretty fast from the off position to the run position & then back to off & if you watch the LCD screen, you should actually be able to see the screen flash/reset right before it shuts off completely. I never remove the key at all, even tho, as I'm sure you have, I've read that it has to be removed for the reset to work. Might be worth a try & if it also works for you, then you have your answer

 

[billybovine]

Myth

According to the service manual. An error code status is changed from active to occurred by turning off the key for 30 seconds. As long as the cause of the code is no longer present when the key is turned back on. The key does not have to be removed at all. But if you feel you have to remove the key, swing a dead chicken over your head or sacrifice a pig to feel better go ahead. :joke: None of that is needed.

I have attached a video demonstrating how sensitive the Spyder is to the transponder key.

 

[reverendg]

I thought most chipped keys activate via induced current, and only in close proximity (few inches) to the actual ignition switch.

 

[NancysToy]

According to the service manual. An error code status is changed from active to occurred by turning off the key for 30 seconds. As long as the cause of the code is no longer present when the key is turned back on. The key does not have to be removed at all. But if you feel you have to remove the key, swing a dead chicken over your head or sacrifice a pig to feel better go ahead. :joke: None of that is needed.

I have attached a video demonstrating how sensitive the Spyder is to the transponder key.

Oh great! Now I have to carry a dead chicken. :roflblack:

:agree: Shutting off the key and leaving it off for 30 seconds before restarting should clear the warning if the original fault has cleared. No dead chickens or lucky rabbits' feet should be required. Just be sure to hold your mouth right. :joke:

 

[MouthPiece]

Oh great! Now I have to carry a dead chicken. :roflblack:

:agree: Shutting off the key and leaving it off for 30 seconds before restarting should clear the warning if the original fault has cleared. No dead chickens or lucky rabbits' feet should be required. Just be sure to hold your mouth right. :joke:

Took the words right out of my mouth (pardon the pun) Scotty. The only other thing I could add is perhaps rubbing your mojo doll.

Chris

 

[SpyderAnn01]

According to the service manual. An error code status is changed from active to occurred by turning off the key for 30 seconds. As long as the cause of the code is no longer present when the key is turned back on. The key does not have to be removed at all. But if you feel you have to remove the key, swing a dead chicken over your head or sacrifice a pig to feel better go ahead. :joke: None of that is needed.

I have attached a video demonstrating how sensitive the Spyder is to the transponder key.

Dang, I wanted to see a video of you swinging a dead chicken.

 

[bullant12]

I thought most chipped keys activate via induced current, and only in close proximity (few inches) to the actual ignition switch.

The key word being "most"... Lamont was showing me one time on the amount of times he had to change the inside lid of the IPS because in his first prototype, the sensor would not read the chip with the key in the ignition. He had to trial and error it until he got the correct space.

 

[ABQAndy]

According to the service manual. An error code status is changed from active to occurred by turning off the key for 30 seconds. As long as the cause of the code is no longer present when the key is turned back on. The key does not have to be removed at all. But if you feel you have to remove the key, swing a dead chicken over your head or sacrifice a pig to feel better go ahead. :joke: None of that is needed.

I have attached a video demonstrating how sensitive the Spyder is to the transponder key.

Thanks for your video, may be good information to know in the future.

 

[Magdave]

You guys have it all wrong you have to ring your Gremlin Bell 3 times and all will be good. :roflblack:

 

[Dan McNally]

If you keep it in double zip locked bags one will usually last about 3 weeks depending on the temperature before you need to change it.
You may be able to save some money by reusing the bags but I would not recommend it.

You can totally dispense with the dead chicken, and all the swinging of it, if, every third Saturday at midnight, you sacrifice a goat on a Tupperware altar, while dancing in your birthday suit in your front yard. :yes: Last time, the judge told me I had to stick with the chickens . . . :banghead:

 

[billybovine]

Took the words right out of my mouth (pardon the pun) Scotty. The only other thing I could add is perhaps rubbing your mojo doll.

Chris

I don't care what you call it. I don't think you should be rubbing it in public. :yikes: :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[ulflyer]

If you keep it in double zip locked bags one will usually last about 3 weeks depending on the temperature before you need to change it.
You may be able to save some money by reusing the bags but I would not recommend it.

Roger, should I wrap it in tinfoil? Or will that "thwart" the whole process?

 

[OJ UK]

:roflblack:....Any particular type of chicken?? Will a turkey suffice or would that only work around Thanksgiving?
I'm certainly not going to start rubbing my 'mojo'....pps:

 

[Well Hell]

Key

I was told by the judge that next time I rubbed my mojo I would go to jail:roflblack: So I tried the swinging chicken but pulled a muscle:yikes: so now I just wear the tin foil beanie:shocked:

 

[Illinois Boy]

According to the service manual. An error code status is changed from active to occurred by turning off the key for 30 seconds. As long as the cause of the code is no longer present when the key is turned back on. The key does not have to be removed at all. But if you feel you have to remove the key, swing a dead chicken over your head or sacrifice a pig to feel better go ahead. :joke: None of that is needed.

I have attached a video demonstrating how sensitive the Spyder is to the transponder key.

Great video demonstration...:firstplace:

 

[tobor9]

I don't know why everyone thinks you have to take the key out and walk away? I tried experimenting with a unchipped key and the chipped one close by and found that the chipped one has to touch the unchipped one to work!There is no field,I hoped there was so I could use a IPS and keep a chipped key in my pocket but no go. Every time I've had a code problem I just taken my key out and put it back in after a min. and it worked(never got off my :ani29

 

[Dan_Ashley]

My dead chicken....

If you keep it in double zip locked bags one will usually last about 3 weeks depending on the temperature before you need to change it.
You may be able to save some money by reusing the bags but I would not recommend it.

I have two dead chickens. I keep one in the freezer, and put the other in my drink cooler to keep my soda pop cold. I carry the cooler in the frunk. When I return home I put the cooler chicken back in the freezer, so I can use it again. I put the chicken into two zip lock bags to prevent chicken leakage into the cooler or the frunk.

I have a twine wrapped around the chicken. I put the garlic on the twine, a...um...small strap. This makes it convienant....especially when I need to swing the chicken with the garlic. I call it, "making circles with a spicy chick." My wife was starting to get jealous until she had to swing the chicken once. Now she understands.

I only needed to do this a few times. One thing I did wrong though and everone should be careful of: when swinging the chick, make sure you hang onto the strap. I let go once by accident. The highway trooper didn't think it was too amusing when the 1/2 thawed chicken exploded against his nice, shiney, black and white car. I explained to the officer that it probably exploded because it had been thawed and refrozen so many times. It really smelled real bad. I offered to pay for a car wash for the police car, but the trooper just drove away. Never saw him again.

Also, every once in a while, check the zip locks for tears. Liquidized, thawed, dead chicken is really yucky.

 

[Harvey]

According to the service manual. An error code status is changed from active to occurred by turning off the key for 30 seconds. As long as the cause of the code is no longer present when the key is turned back on. The key does not have to be removed at all. But if you feel you have to remove the key, swing a dead chicken over your head or sacrifice a pig to feel better go ahead. :joke: None of that is needed.

I have attached a video demonstrating how sensitive the Spyder is to the transponder key.

Great video. Will the Spyder continue running when the chipped key is removed from the area?