Share fob between vehicles?

[patrickgf]

Just bought a used 2015 Ford Explorer Limited with the 5 button PEPS/Ai fobs for my wife.
I will likely also be purchasing a vehicle for me soon.

I'm curious if anyone has ever tested using one fob for two vehicles.
Basically curious if the fob still works for the first vehicle when it is "programed" for a second.

Would be nice to only need to have one fob since we are often switching cars.
And would be worth making sure I matched year/fob version for the second car, if that worked.

Thanks for any experience

 

[peterk9]

Welcome to the Forum Patrick.
I think this was brought up before some time ago and I believe that the answer was that it isn't possible. I believe each fob is programmed/coded to the vehicle it came with and that it can't have 2 different programs/codes.

Peter

 

[patrickgf]

I figured that might be the case. I tried to search but struck out on it.
I'm pretty sure my old Escape (2005) the car "learned" the remote vs "programing" it...if that makes sense.
To bad would be a nice feature...though the remote start in the morning but be tricky

 

[peterk9]

I figured that might be the case. I tried to search but struck out on it.
I'm pretty sure my old Escape (2005) the car "learned" the remote vs "programing" it...if that makes sense.
To bad would be a nice feature...though the remote start in the morning but be tricky

You can program a new fob to your Explorer using the slot in the console if you have 2 admin keys but then that fob will only work on that vehicle.

Peter

 

[omar302]

I had previously programmed an extra IA FOB on my 2011 MKX and a 2012 Explorer. The FOB itself does not program, only the vehicle will recognize it. In my case, I had 2 IA fobs working only on the MKX, another 2 IA fobs only worked on the Explorer and the 5th fob worked on both. If both cars were within this fob's range, a remote start command would start both vehicles. Though note that I had this on the older fob style, the one that came on the 2011-2015 Explorer & MKX. 2016+ models have a new style fob and they don't work on older vehicles and I don't know if they can be programmed the same way.

 

[Jon M]

Since used FOBs can be programmed to other vehicles, I don't see any reason it shouldn't work, as long as the FOB is compatible with both vehicles.