2014 Audi S5
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A woman in the River Park/Wagon Wheel area called me on a Tuesday afternoon. She had a 2014 Audi S5 and her proximity fob had stopped waking the door handles.
The car would not unlock when she walked up, but if she pressed the unlock button directly the car responded fine. Push-button start still worked when the fob was inside the car. So it was not a dead key, just a degraded one.
She had already been to the dealer. They told her the fob needed to be replaced and quoted her a number that made her step back from the counter. Parts lead time was part of the conversation. She left without committing.
I pulled up to her place and started with the obvious. Held the fob close to the door handle sensor and watched for a response. Got one. That told me the fob was broadcasting, just not strongly enough to trigger the passive entry range at normal walking distance. Classic sign of a fob that has taken some wear: signal range drops before everything else fails.
Opened the fob, inspected the board and housing. No corrosion, no cracked solder points I could see. Swapped to a fresh battery and tested range again. Better, but still not right. The fob housing itself had a hairline crack along the back plate where the two halves meet, and the internal antenna contact was not seating the way it should. The housing was the problem, not the electronics.
Moved the board into a new shell, confirmed fit, tested every button function and passive entry range from a normal walking distance. Worked the way it was supposed to. She did not need a full new programmed key. She needed the part that was actually broken.
The dealer comparison barely came up. She already knew.
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