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Old 01-03-2011, 10:27 AM
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Recently during a long trip from chicago to new york, driving along I90, every time I was pulling away from any tollbooth I would get a warning that my key battery was low. Then it would go away until the next tollbooth. Key battery is almost brand new.

Anyone ever experience this? Could the EZ pass radio waves be interferring with the key radio waves?

PS. I don't have EZ pass in my car.
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I got this warning a couple of times after several hours of skiing in a near zero degree temperature. Never happened near EZ pass boths which I pass frequently.
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Yeah, it was very cold out. Maybe that was it. I had gone through ez pass before this started happening without a problem.

It was so weird, it happened precisely at the same spot pulling away from EVERY tollbooth on the trip.
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I got a low battery warning a few months ago and replaced the batteries in both keys and kept two spares for the next time.
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