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Had as free 1000 in accessories to spend so decided on 2 key shells as part of this. One in white the other in black.
Yes it is silly to spend 130(ish) dollars per shell but was running out of stuff to get and wanted to squeeze every penny.
they arrived at last ( they did not actually order them the first 3 odd times they said they had, same with my plates but this is a different story).
min wrapped them. They come in a nice holds something nice cardboard plush box. I open the white first and eagerly put them on my shell. They refuse to lock into place so will just fall off.
Put the original back on and am greeted with a nice snap as they seat and lock in.
Fristration growing.
Try the black one it also fails.
It’s been a day of being lied to by Volvo dealership so feeling a lack of the warm fuzzies.
I think ooh how about I put them on backwards and voila black leather licks in to place. Huzzah I do the same with white and it falls off.
I decide to test the plastic and they lock into place reversed or not.
Finally look at packaging to see which countries made which. Found one made in Germany and the other made in Portugal.
Can you guess which one worked? Well it was not a day for German engineering. Victory Portugal. Failure Germany ( of course judging a country by a key phob shell is ridiculous this was just humor).
long and the short neither replacement is made to the same quality as the freeby plastic one.
Yes it is silly to spend 130(ish) dollars per shell but was running out of stuff to get and wanted to squeeze every penny.
they arrived at last ( they did not actually order them the first 3 odd times they said they had, same with my plates but this is a different story).
min wrapped them. They come in a nice holds something nice cardboard plush box. I open the white first and eagerly put them on my shell. They refuse to lock into place so will just fall off.
Put the original back on and am greeted with a nice snap as they seat and lock in.
Fristration growing.
Try the black one it also fails.
It’s been a day of being lied to by Volvo dealership so feeling a lack of the warm fuzzies.
I think ooh how about I put them on backwards and voila black leather licks in to place. Huzzah I do the same with white and it falls off.
I decide to test the plastic and they lock into place reversed or not.
Finally look at packaging to see which countries made which. Found one made in Germany and the other made in Portugal.
Can you guess which one worked? Well it was not a day for German engineering. Victory Portugal. Failure Germany ( of course judging a country by a key phob shell is ridiculous this was just humor).
long and the short neither replacement is made to the same quality as the freeby plastic one.