![]() Once you move a ‘sleeping’ key fob, it’ll start communicating with the car again - the red light on the fob will start flashing as it did in your case - until the predetermined period of inactivity has passed again, when it’ll go back into sleep mode. If the fob’s asleep and not communicating with the car, it’s not possible for the signal to be intercepted. ![]() It’s a security measure to stop the fob signal being intercepted by signal amplification equipment by any would be perpetrators who are looking to steal a car. I seem to remember reading that on the Golf mk8, the keyless function goes to sleep if the key fob after a set period of time ( sorry, don’t know what that set period is) if the fob isn’t moved. ![]() I’m more than capable of pressing a button on the fob to unlock and lock my car. My Polo GTI+ has keyless entry / keyless start and the fob batteries are still going strong nearly 18 months after I took delivery of the car, but I do disable keyless as I consider it to be a pretty pointless feature (that’s just my opinion though). Presumably your car has keyless entry? It’s not unusual for they key fob batteries to need replacing at around the 1 year mark on keyless cars. I’ve read on various forums of a few owners needing to replace their key fob batteries within the first year.
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