My 2014 S60 burns through key fob batteries about every 4-5 months. Anyone else see this trend?

 

I've seen it once. You'll need a new fob

 

We park in our garage and had a habit of leaving the key/fob in the vehicle and lived with this phenomenon for a couple of years and then tried something new. We tried no longer leaving the key in the vehicle and what a surprise, no more having to replace key fob batteries. Not sure if you have this habit as well but if you do, give it a try.

 

I had the same experience with my 2013 S60. And on occasion the dashboard would say low battery even though it was not.

Cured both issues by turning off the stereo prior to turning the engine off.

 

So 8 months ago, I changed both key fob batteries with 4 Energizer batteries, 2 for each.
Now both key fobs showed battery low at the exact same time even though I typically use 1 of them day in day out.
After reading the above comment I suspected a short.
I remeber the thin white plastic sleeve that sits between the 2 batteries was damaged and had a cut out possibly where the 2 batteries could touch.
So I traced out the battery on the front of an Aldi catalogue, popped out the circle and stuck that in the middle of the 2 batteries to add further insulation....
I used the same 8 month old batteries and dash had no more key fob flat battery notifications.
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