Vedasmom

Terry, did you find it pretty easy to replace the batteries? Aside from putting them in the first time that is. :dreamy: I am a single female that gets pretty intimidated with that kind of thing. Were there any markings on the batteries to help with not putting them in upside down? Also, where did you find the correct battery? On a side note, I appreciate that you can laugh at yourself. I'm pretty good at that too! :shades:

I am having key fob issues as well. I bought my journey used. I have not damaged mine but one is not working (maybe battery) and the other is slowly starting to give me issues with working and is doing wacky things (i.e. flashing the lights, locking or unlocking or rolling the windows down when I have not even touched the key). I am thining I will either need to replace the batteries or maybe the whole thing. My Journey is a 2009 SXT. I see that you can buy "new" keys (like fob and all) online for less than $100 as long as you match with the right p/n. Was programming them really that easy? If so, I may consider doing it myself. I'd rather do that than pay the $300 it will cost to do it all at the dealer. Also, the manual says that I will need a 4 digit code for a dealer to do it for me. I bought mine used. I have no such code. Is that accurate? Finally, as a word of advice. Don't make metal copies of the key for the drivers side door thinking that will work in case of an emergency. Yes, you can unlock the door with it but if you locked the doors via the "lock" button on the door of with the FOB the alarm will go off and the only way to turn it off is by placing a "whole" key (elecrtical portion and all) into the ignition and starting the vehicle or by pressing unlock on a working FOB. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I just bought a used 2009 Journey SXT as well. I am talking I still have 30 day temporary tags. I have started having the same issues. When I bought the car it came with two keyless entry keys. One worked. The other didnt. I assumed that the one that didnt work just needed a battery. I just used the one that was working. For a while it was working fine. Then it started getting touchy where you had to press the button just the right way to unlock. Now I can almost never get it to work to unlock. That means that in order to unlock the vehicle I have to pull the standard metal key out to unlock the doors. When you open the door the alarm goes off and you have to quickly start the vehicle with the key system put back together to get the alarm to stop. Since I have been having this issue, I have been having the same concerns with random unlocking and windows going down. The owner's manual says that you should be able to push the unlock button one time and then hold it down a second time to make the windows go down. That is not at all what I am doing. As a matter of fact, the buttons barely work. At random times when I am getting into or out of or walking away from the car the lights will blink or the doors will lock or unlock (usually the opposite of what I want them to do) or the windows will go down. I LOVE my journey but this is getting frustrating. I have considered getting replacement batteries. I have considered replacing the keys all together. Both are very expensive options and I don't feel that either is a garauntee at this point. I dont know if it is as simple as the battery being low (4.5 years old) and just getting wacky. Any advice would be appreciated.