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2023 Silverado 1500 ZR2

 

This question has a couple of parts. 
1. I have owned Chevy Trucks even before the FOB existed. I can count on one hand how many times the FOB buttons were accidentally pushed in my pocket. Until this vehicle. It is now rare to walk away from a locked vehicle and it be locked when I come back. I came back to my truck today and it was cranked and unlocked. 
So are there a lot of complaints about FOB sensitivity?

2. If I get out of my truck and walk away, it locks itself. However, if the FOB gets pressed to unlock, it will stay unlocked. Why? Is there a setting I am missing?

oldmann Senior Enthusiast

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I agree this fob is far worse than any before.  I have hit the alarm button 10 times in the last month and a half with this truck.  Never hit a button on my trucks starting in 2007

dieselfan1 Senior Enthusiast

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Never had that problem. Can't blame the fob. 

Try putting the fob in your pocket with buttons facing your leg.

 

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But it has to be the fob. 5 past trucks with fobs and I carry my wife’s Acadia fob if I am not driving the truck. Have an accidental button press maybe once a year. 

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For what it's worth, I placed my fob in a leather cover specifically designed for it soon after buying the truck in July of 2020.  I've not had a single incident in over three years of any button being pushed in error as the cover requires more effort to activate the buttons.  Purchased it on Amazon, and a quick search shows many options out there, even for the most recent model years.

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And that is what I did as well. Put a cover on it and that helped a lot. But still, I am trying to get it across to GM, an $80K vehicle that when accidentally unlocked, will never lock itself back is beyond ridiculous. If I crank it with the FOB then do not get in and go within a certain amount of time,  it shuts down. Unlock it accidentally while downtown at midnight, it just remains unlocked. Too easy for GM to fix. 
 

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I accidentally rolled my windows down while working so I disabled that option for now.  I know that was all my doing since I was close enough to the truck in the building and was holding boxes up against my side so I 100% hit it while doing my work. I will say the range on the new remote is far longer than the older remotes like my old 1997, 2014 and other cars I have driven. Because of that it doesn't take much to be in range and have it accept the accidental button press.

 

What I will say would be awesome is if GM and other manufacturers could make a lockout button on the remotes. My aftermarket Viper remote start had button lockout where you can go into the menu and turn it on so after 30 seconds of no button pressing it will lock the buttons and require you to press the function key and then unlock to unlock the remote and allow you to send a command with the fob. I always used that mode when I was in range of my truck which had a 1 mile line of sight connection and I was bouncing around like in an amusement park or something so I couldn't send a command by accident.

ember1205 Senior Enthusiast

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This FOB sucks. If I carry it in my front pocket of my jeans, which is where I would also carry the one for the Camaro or my wife's Acura, I have a better than 50% chance of finding the truck unlocked when I approach it. The fact that GM removed the "auto re-lock" feature from this truck that I had in my 2015 (and also have in the Camaro, the wife's Acura, and literally every car I've ever owned that used remote unlock functions) is a serious concern for me. 

 

I'm looking for a case for it that would actually completely cover all of the buttons since I don't care about remote start and the rest is all proximity based anyhow.

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28 minutes ago, ember1205 said:

This FOB sucks. If I carry it in my front pocket of my jeans, which is where I would also carry the one for the Camaro or my wife's Acura, I have a better than 50% chance of finding the truck unlocked when I approach it. The fact that GM removed the "auto re-lock" feature from this truck that I had in my 2015 (and also have in the Camaro, the wife's Acura, and literally every car I've ever owned that used remote unlock functions) is a serious concern for me. 

 

I'm looking for a case for it that would actually completely cover all of the buttons since I don't care about remote start and the rest is all proximity based anyhow.

My FOB completely covers all buttons.  I assume the company makes them for the newer model trucks as well, but I don't know that for a fact.  Here's a link to the Amazon product I bought for my 2020:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ST3Y642/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1

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ember1205 Senior Enthusiast

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1 hour ago, Anacortes Army Guy said:

My FOB completely covers all buttons.  I assume the company makes them for the newer model trucks as well, but I don't know that for a fact.  Here's a link to the Amazon product I bought for my 2020:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ST3Y642/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1

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Interesting design, but I -believe- the buttons on the fob for your truck are slightly below the edges of the fob while mine are flush. Much easier to press as a result. I wonder if there's a "slip in case" that would provide a hard cover over the buttons for mine...

 

Here's the two fobs for comparison:

 

 

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ember1205 Senior Enthusiast

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51 minutes ago, TsRZR2 said:

This one seems to do the trick for the most part. 

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Thanks... I actually have that one on my list to try.

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