I got new fob shells a few years back from eBay. Basically the plastic parts of the fob. Swap over the electronics, snap together, add the backup key, looks good as new. $30 or so IIRC.

the silver on the buttons of my old ones was flaking and sharp.

 

I'll play the key fob game. I've been using this leather fob cover from amazon for 5+ years and it's held up pretty well considering.

 

Th fobs for the Audi and my work Ford are too big to coexist so now I have keychains for each.

nothing fancy here just a 727 aileron tab dogbone from my civil aviation days.

 

Air max 87?! A man of culture, I see

 

Key worn on a lanyard around your neck? How very college freshman of you (at least back in my day, all the freshman wore dorm keys around their necks)

 

My family has a long history in the aviation sector (eg, airline mechanics, air traffic controllers, pilots). I used to have one of those “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” tags that I could hook to my keyring.

But since I’m an outlier and went my own path, I’d feel like a poser to use it

 

I have an air force-sourced remove before flight pennant on my wheel chocks. Seemed appropriate. Have been gifted a few of the embroidered keychain types too but generally don't use them, or the brake rotor keychain, or the wankel rotor epitrochroid one, etc etc.

The 727 dogbone used to be zinc chromate green but many many years in my pocket all that is long gone. I pulled this from a decommissioned aileron around 1999 or so.

 

One key fob and one house key... like that for all four cars (kids cars too).

I don't want anything more than that in my pocket.

 

With the work car, it's fob, mailroom key, door key, home key, and nitroglycerin container

 

Rodney Dangerfield à la Thornton Melon (Back to School) I am not. Plus, I never did the dorm life at Uni. Contrary to my involvement here, a "people person" I am definitely not.

When I first bought the G I kept the fob in my pocket. Not a month into ownership I went to lock the car and it wouldn't. Long story short the fob had slipped my pocket and fell between the seat and door sill and the car will not lock with the fob in the car. Thankfully. From then on I became paranoid that it would either slip my pocket again (or get pickpocketed) and get lost. Imagine that headache.

I don not carry any other keys, just the fob. So, no, around my neck and under my shirt is just fine- especially with my BMW as you can literally lock the fob in the car and get "locked out."

 

that's the ONE feature I like on the company Fords... they have the keypad on the driver's door to lock and unlock via code. For some courts I go to, security is extra tetchy so I leave everything in the car - phone, keys, etc but can lock it just fine.

//not enough to BUY a ford for myself, but...

 

The key fob on my kid's Hyundai is a switch blade. Press the button, and the key flips out, erect and ready for insertion.

The other 3 cars are all wireless ignition.

 

My 2005 RX-8 was like that. Per owners manual, couldn't put it on a key ring since anything hanging from it could wear out/mechanically lock the ignition cylinder

 

Yessir, why thank you kind sir!

 

I normally unclip a section off and carry it only; helps when I go for a run as the full set will pull my shorts down :-)

Subset contains the FOB, my OBD lock key and steering wheel club. Unfortunately, the last two are mandatory these days. That sucks.

I went fully away from wallets last year as well as those things destroy your back. Use a wallet case now for my phone and kick myself for not doing this sooner.