How can I find a lost fob

Clap twice quickly, slap the Toyota emblem on the hatch, and then whistle. Listen for beeping.

 

Pick up your car and carry it inside and when you can open the door you know you are near the fob. This should reduce the size of the search area. Assuming you have SKS.

Did you look where you last left it? My mum would say this to me.
It will be in the last place you look for it. A work mate liked quoting this one.

 

Have you washed your clothes lately? Check the washer and the dryer.

BTW if you never find it...buy another immediately and get it programmed. You don't want to have only one....and then lose it too. (I hope it wasn't the one with the silver tag on the key.)

 

If you don't have SKS get a used fob and use this, http://priuschat.com/forums/knowled...lly-how-program-non-sks-key-fob-detailed.html it works!

 

You could always try Google........

 

SilverDriver, I'm afraid that what the folks are trying to tell you, in their off-beat/humorous sort of wisenheimer way, is that there's no magic bullet answer to this one. It is not like a cordless phone that allows you to push a button on the base-station (or, in this case, the car) and it will chirp at you. I was going to suggest a variant of patsparks' reply, pick up the Prius, take it into the house or to the area where you think you may have lost the fob, and move it around until the interior lights brighten up, then you'll know you're getting warmer!

Or, if you're anything like me, you'll search and search and then, after going through stages of frustration, swearing, kicking things, frightening the children and the family pets, you'll give up.......and then, within a very short time-period, find the thing in some very obvious place! Good luck.

PS: If you don't find it, I agree with Godiva and urge you to bite the bullet, spend the $, and get it replaced immediately.

 

Sometimes I find stuff under the clothes drying line.

 

If you have SKS,

When you have the key near the car, it emits a red light. I wonder if the keys do the same when near the other key. Probably not, but worth asking.

Have you look in your jean pockets? Also, if you hang the jeans/pants from a hanger, it might fall down from the pocket. Happens to me all the time.

Take all the bags, clothes, bedding you have, go near the car and see if it opens.

Look in the kitchen cabinets/fridge if you did a grocery shopping trip last time.

 

If you are similar to my GF, start looking in the most unlikely places - the refridgerator, inside kitchen cabinets, on the bathroom counters, etc. Make sure you aren't carrying it around - she does that sometimes too.

 

If you have a two or three year old child ask him/her where they keep their treasures.

 

You could be like the drunk, down on his hands and knees, looking under a street lamp. A person walks up and asks him: "What are you looking for?", to which he replies: "My keys." "Did you drop them here by the light?" "No", the drunk replies, "Over in the parking lot." "Then why are you looking here?", to which the drunk replies: "Because the light is better."

Tom

 

Good one,
A young boy look is something like.
Mum I can't find my shoes. Said while the boy is looking at the ceiling.

 

retrace your steps. Obviously its gotta be in the same location as your car, unless your talking about the spare.

 

Try Ebay.

Actually my wife thought she lost hers. She never drives the car, but carries one for "energencies". As she got her purse out of her locker, the fob apparantly flew out and landed in a co-workers hood of her sweatshirt. The other person went home (over 50 miles away), and we looked everywhere for the missing fob. I checked availability on Ebay, and was about to order one, when my wife's friend found the strange looking fob in her sweatshirt hood, several days later. Wierd.

 

Like everyone, you will find your lost item in the last place you look.

The best way to find something is try to remember when you seen or used it last, then retrace your steps from there. And by all means, DO NOT throw out the garbage until you thoroughly check it.

 

If you find it but keep looking, then there are other issues that need to be addressed.

 

Considering it is $200+ to get a new fob, I think there could be a market for a portable device that checked for proximity to key fobs.

 

Yes it makes sense to me. It obviously transmits a signal of some sort?