A few times I have thought about doing a maintenance guide on Omega tasks. lets face it after 11 years of continous ownership I have done many of the tasks.
Welll all that changed. I now have "fast" Internet that would nearly show a pair of heels to Internet in a 3rd world country and a digital camera and my trusty Win95 single cor! 400 celeron DooDaa PC.
The task. The mighty complex process of changing the battery in the car key fob. First action prise the yoke off. Easily achieved. How do you access the battery? Ask question on OOF. "Prise apart and change battery number such and such and don't forget to put the clip back in".
Prised it apart and checked battery number was correct, it was. Looks easy enough job. Put back together and use spare key. Next day to go to local town for battery. Probably hard to obtain so I hovered in the car in a double parked space anxiously watching out for the tow truck, while Mrs Varche went into a jewellers. Out she came moments later with a battery - 3 euros (about £2.50). Thats not bad thought Mr Varche as we drove away, yes and she would have fitted it for free too. Never mind thought I, I need to take notes and photos as I do the guide back home.
Next day. Took key apart and tried(unsuccessfully) to remove the clip. Crap eyesight doesn't help and neither did a magnifying glass. Even Mrs Varche's eagle eyes were no good. Resorted to Arnold Swarzneggar approach and extracted old battery without bothering with a poxy clip. Put it all back together and tried it. Still doesn't work. Took it apart and then and only then did I notice ,what later turns out to be a vital component , the chip is missing.
So retraced my many, many steps of the last 48 hours and failed to find the missing chip despite leaving no stone unturned. (that isn't a metaphor but a factual statement).
Have now decided on day 5 of "simple task of changing a battery"
to not write a guide (sorry not very public spirited)
to use the shop in future
to live with only one key
El Varche (non guide contributor)
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