How to Open Your 2018 Lexus GS F Key Fob & Change Battery

How to Open Your 2018 Lexus GS F Key Fob & Change Battery

If your Lexus key is no longer open doors perfectly, the cell battery most likely needs to be replaced. In this article, we are going to tell you how to disassembly your keyless entry remote and change a weak or dead battery DIY. If you gonna solve to do it at home near GS F, use this guide, but don't forget to check everything you need.

What type battery does 2018 Lexus GS F key fob take

Replacing battery in keyless entry remote require 1xCR2032 battery and flat head screwdriver. Prepare these materials and tools before opening and make sure to match the type of your keyless entry fob's batteries.
  • flat head screwdriver
  • 1xCR2032 battery

Simple steps to change the battery in your car's key fob

A tiny coin battery installed inside the your remote key fob. Move the key out of the way if it is in the remote key fob.

Delicately try to disassemble your key fob with hands or flat head screwdriver. Remove CR2032 battery with flat head screwdriver.

Replace old battery with new one CR2032. Every battery has a negative and positive side and if you put the wrong connector down, the current cannot go into your circuit board and make it work. Check position on battery, by "+" mark.

After the new battery installed, verify key fob functionality by pressing buttons. If everything working properly, assemble your fob’s case in reverse order.

At this point squeeze fob’s back cover together. Line your shell pieces together and assemble it together by hands from top to bottom. If your keyless entry remote shell tightly closed, we done. If not, repeat the last step.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Key fob of Lexus GS F use 1xCR2032 batteries. Price for CR2032 batteries are under $4-6 depending on the type, brand and size packaging you buy. Take your old battery to the store, with you to find a proper replacement.

Often, after keyless entry remote battery change, reprogramming not required. Key fob reprogramming procedure often described in user's manual of your vehicle.

Replacing your keyless entry remote battery is easy to do in 2018 Lexus GS F. Most of car manufacturers think of the clients and make a special hole for remote key fob disassembly.

Auto repair shop's price for change the battery in remote key fob is from $30 to as high as $500 depending on the make.

You should change batteries inside keyless entry remote of Lexus GS F at least once in three years. The lifetime of battery differ on frequency of use, operating conditions and quality. Famous brands cells normally will last longer.

These symptoms will warning you that it's probably time to replace battery in your Lexus GS F: you didn't change battery more than 4 years, key fob buttons not working, signal strength reduced and low key battery indicator on dashboard.
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Fob Compatibility:

  1. FCC ID: HYQ14FBA
  2. Models: 2016-2018 Lexus GS F