What this Message Alert Mean?

ZKindaGuy

I pulled the 370Z into the garage. And shut off the engine. As I opened the door to exit the car, the bell kept dinging. A message alert showed on the alert gauge (fuel) screen. It showed a picture of a key and the message alert read "No Key". I closed the door to the car and the bell kept dinging and the screen changed its icon from the key icon to just a pictire icon of the key fob showing to insert it into the key fob hole in the dash.

I then went back into the car and the key fob icon changed back to the key icon and the alert message "No Key" came back on. I then started the car back up and then shut it off and got out of the car. This time the bell went off once I closed the door and the "key fob" icon came on the alert gauge. Once I locked the car up using the key fob the bell stopped dinging and the alert gauge turned off.

I thought maybe it was trying to say the battery in the key fob might need to be replaced but then why show the "key fob in dash slot" icon as its my understanding that the slot does NOT act as a "key-fob" battery charger.

What the hell was this all about? What was this messgae alert trying to tell me?

Red370

its not a battery charger, quite the opposite actually. The only time you use that is when your key battery is dead, to be able to start the car. I hope you havent been using it as a key holder! It will actually drain your keys battery if the battery has juice. And that icon means the key has been removed from the sensors range, so if you were in the car with the key, you battery is low or dead.

need4speed

Funny u say that... my dealer told me that putting it in the holder recharges the fob. N it only needs 15 minutes of charge in the holder like once a year. That was wat I was told. And the battery itself will sustain 3 to 5 years.
I better look it up in my manual I guess?
I dunno y my dealer would tell me that if he wasn't sure?
But then that was my altima. My its different on a z?
I doubt it... well I'll go check

ZKindaGuy

OK, after digging around the car user manual I found that in my particular situation, the "NO KEY" warning happens as a result of a driver apparently NOT having pushed the power button long enough so that the power button actually causes the car to enter the all power-off "LOCK" mode and instead the car made it only to the power-on "ACC" mode.

The engine was off but the car was still under electrical power. The bell dings and the lit "NO KEY" guage alert is the warning for that condition if you try exiting the car as I did.

So make sure when you intend to exit the car and you push the power button to turn the car off that the light around the power button circumference says "LOCK" and not "ACC" otherwise this audio and visual alert will happen.