Re: mystery capsule in my A4 key

["Jouko Haapanen" <joukoh@vtoy.fi>]

Larry,

If you mean its about 2/3 of the bulb's diameter, mounted on the opposite
side, it would be the transponder unit for the immobilizer.  Don't take it
out!!!  ;^)

Jouko Haapanen
Pori, Finland

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> From: Larry Strollo <lms@kodak.com>
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: mystery capsule in my A4 key
> Date: 15. joulukuuta 1997 16:35
> 
> 
> 
> So I go to replace the battery for the little flashlight in the key to my
> 96 A4Q.  I open up the fob, and there's the lamp, the battery, and this
> strange removable capsule.  It's about as long as the battery, about 2/3
of
> its diameter, it looks like it's made of glass or heavy plastic, and it's
a
> translucent green color.  Trapped inside the capsule there's some sort of
> copper colored thing suspended in some goop.
> 
> Does anyone know what this is ?  Cyanide in case I ever think about
buying
> a BMW ?   (Sorry - couldn't resist.) 
> 
> 
> LMS
> 
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> Larry Strollo                                    Eastman Kodak Company 
> lms@kodak.com                                 Rochester, NY 14653-5400
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