If anyone is interested these are a few pictures of the project to rebuild a Corsa keyfob. Total cost was £18.50 and importantly NO PROGRAMMING AT ALL WAS NEEDED. The original fob had demised in true Corsa fashion. In the picture you can see the perished rubber and the switches after they were removed from the pcb. A fob was obtained from ebay which as it was listed as "brand new" I went to £16 +£2.10 postage for. When the fob got here it didn't work! Suitable feedback about yet another ebay rip off artist left but decided to carry on and try to rebuild key as the body of the replacement and its buttons did indeed seem as new. I suspect that it was faulty and was replaced by Vauxhall and the faulty one stuck on ebay. With the fob opened up the bit I was dreading. Could I get the old push button switches off or not? To my suprise, a quick dab with a VERY SMALL soldering iron at each end of the switch and they fell off! Removing the new ones from their pcb was just as easy and went on the old pcb no problem. Put it all back together using the new rubber housing and fingers crossed X! IT WORKED PERFECTLY! The equivalent of a brand new keyfob for just £18.50 with no programming at all needed. I'd only advise trying this if you are experienced with surface mount soldering or have nothing to lose. I.e. don't blame me if you fuck it up... Pictures:- 1 shows the fob in bits after the butons removed the arrows point to the switch solder pads on the pcb [URL]http://members.aol.com/smellyfartybum/1.jpg[/URL] 2 shows the perished switches after removal from the pcb [URL]http://members.aol.com/smellyfartybum/2.jpg[/URL] 3 show my fingers holding a switch. You can just make out the sm solder connector. [URL]http://members.aol.com/smellyfartybum/3.jpg[/URL] This account accepts incoming mail for any comments.
