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MGF Fob Battery Replacement

Another simple and basic maintenance activity will be MGF fob battery replacement. Easy is you have the owners manual, but many people don’t. So, below is an extract. Jump to the owner’s manual extract, if you are familiar with opening the fobs.

Opening the Fob #

Before you start to follow the instructions, these pictures may help with opening the fob case.

The image shows a close up of one half of an MGF key fob with the 2 locking tabs for the case highlighted with yellow markup circles.
See the fob case’s locking tabs highlighted
The locking tabs shown from directly above

Fob Battery Replacement – Owners Manual Extract #

The following is an extract from the owners manual that explains the process to replace the CR2032 battery and resync the fobs with the car.

Hopefully you will find this helpful to complete your MGF fob battery replacement. For other articles about keys and fobs and the security systems see this category of the the knowledge base.

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Updated on December 11, 2024
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