Thread: Discovery 3 Key remote

I have a worn key fob a search of ebay uncovered this
Land Rover Discovery 3 Remote KEY FOB Button Repair PAD | eBay
Has anyone tried them ??

I've replaced the key fob cover (pita to open - hint I used a dremel to cut it open ... Carefully) and had a new fob from eBay. I got a replacement battery from battery world (order in $9 got it in a couple of days). Easy solder - my problem was a cracked soldered battery joint per bbyers comment but i figured id change the battery while it was open. All good now !

Originally Posted by crawal

I have a worn key fob a search of ebay uncovered this
Land Rover Discovery 3 Remote KEY FOB Button Repair PAD | eBay
Has anyone tried them ??

There was a compAny on eBay selling original
Landrover replacement buttons but I can't find em any more

I purchased this for a friend from eBay seller "car remote store". Bought two for him and her.

Full internal replacement, just a touch hard to glue and join but worked well.

Brett....

I purchased my spare battery from Jaycar electronics but turned out not to be the battery, there is a piece of sponge rubber at the back of the circuit board which over time has been compressed with continuous pushing of the buttons just put a bit more packing behind it and now works great

Originally Posted by crawal

I have a worn key fob a search of ebay uncovered this
Land Rover Discovery 3 Remote KEY FOB Button Repair PAD | eBay
Has anyone tried them ??

Hi
I purchased on of the silicon button replacement strips from the site you quote to repair my damaged fob.

Installed easily enough following their instructions. Has worked fine for last 6 months, only slight drawback is the lack of icons showing which button is which.

Cheers
Chris

I have just had both key fobs fail on the same day. I was thinking receiver but then thought I will have a look at the key fobs first. I opened the first key fob and found the solder links and battery had seperated. Not a dry joint but broken. I De soldered the battery terminal and made up a new link. Resoldered the battery to the pcb and if worked fine. 2nd key fob which was working fine until today had the same problem. It was a very intermittent fault. So I repaired it exactly the same. 2 remotes now working no loss of pairing info and no cost. I can recommend try this repair first.

Hi all,

For those with an extended warranty of some sort don't forget it may be worth trying to get faulty keys replaced under a claim.

To my great surprise I successfully got 2 LR keys replaced and coded (paying my excess) from one of the after market warranty companies earlier this year. As you may know getting anything out of them is a miracle and I really didn't expect this to be covered. But then it is an integral part of the car and not a service item....