Amen! ...and keep up the great work--your auto shots are incomparable!
Friends, thank you for all your suggestions, but I just solved the problem. I was given the wrong #2 fob for my car when I bought it from the dealer just over a year ago! I took the physical (valet) key out of the fob, and it doesn't work in my car door! It doesn't even look like the #1 key! I could have sworn that we had used that fob before now, but obviously not. Thanks again for trying!
I'm hoping some of you tech types might be able to help me. One of the remote keys for my 2022 Honda CR-V just stopped working a couple of days ago. I've replaced the battery with a new one, but it still doesn't work. It hasn't been dropped or immersed, and is seldom used. The local dealer's parts department tells me that these keys "don't just lose programming." Three local locksmiths have no other ideas than replacing the key. I'm still hoping to avoid that. Any ideas? TIA!
gwilliams6, wow, i'm impressed! Makes me wish I could have at least met Mr. Boston. Thank you very much for your post! I'm saving this!
Archiefamous, it was typical of Freddie, as I knew him, to take care of "his" customers, in both sales and service. He was also a collector, of course, and I had one opportunity to visit his home in suburban DC and see his collection. He also had a beautiful and precocious little daughter, Angela, whom he had begun teaching camera repair. He often brought her to the store, and they often took home equipment she was capable of repairing, as well as some he had to do himself.
Thanks, anotherview, but I don't believe that's him.
In the early '70s I worked part-time a Ritz Cameras in downtown Washington, DC. The manager was Joe Perillo, and another salesman was Mike Walker. The best known employee was a German immigrant named Freddie J. Werner, and he was virtually in charge of all Leica equipment sales and service in that store. He was a virtual encyclopedia of Leica information, past and present. He routinely traveled at least annually to Leica headquarters in this country, where they supposedly knew him by name and reputation. When he went, he always took with him at least a few pieces of Leica equipment for repairs that he could not do for one reason or another. Upon his return, usually about a week later, he brought back the repaired equipment, along with spare parts he could use to make repairs he felt competent to do. Freddie was one of those guys people either loved or hated, due to his temperament, which often affected decisions about whose repairs he would accept, and even who he would sell (especially used equipment) to. I have often wondered what happened to Freddie and his family. Did anyone else out there know this man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7FN29m8zfA
Appear to be great photos of Ammophila sabulosa!
Beautiful, indeed--I'd love to have it!