Kike, a mechanic at Talleres Piba: "If your car key gets wet or the battery runs out, you can start it with this simple trick."

Sometimes, the simplest solutions are often the most obvious. That's what happens with the case at hand, brought to us by Kike, a mechanic at Talleres Piba, in one of his latest videos on TikTok, a social network where he already has more than 130,000 followers. Let's say your car key breaks, gets wet, the battery dies... And of course, since it's an electronic key, you can't start it . What can we do? Buy a new key? Put it in rice? Take a taxi to the garage ? Nothing like that.

A situation that can be especially problematic if, as the mechanic explains in the video, "we're going on vacation and renting a car ." However, all is not lost, as the vehicle, even if the key is broken or has a dead battery , recognizes its proximity: "The system amplifies the signal so the car detects that the key is nearby and lets you open it," explains Kike in the video you can watch below.

But once inside the car, the ignition button doesn't work. No matter how hard you press it, there's no way out. However, Talleres Piba offers a small glimmer of hope: "The manufacturer isn't going to leave you stranded and has developed a system to start the car. If the car key gets wet or the battery runs out, you can start it with this simple trick," explains the mechanic. So what should you do? First, turn on the key: "We turn on the key, remove the battery so the car thinks it has no battery. Now we go to start it, and it doesn't start ," begins Kike from Talleres Piba.

However, removing the battery from the key will be the saving grace , even if it seems otherwise. Of course, the car isn't going to make things easy for us. This is how the mechanic explains: "Put the key back in its place... Before, you'd see a picture of a key where you had to put it: in the ashtray, on the (steering) column, or in the armrest. But now, not even that; you have to imagine it. The car tells you, ' Put the key back in its place , read the owner's manual'... Where's the owner's manual?'" asks the mechanic from Talleres Piba.

The last step is easy: "Put the key in the same ignition button, on top. The car switches on, we hit the ignition, and it starts. It's that simple," summarizes the mechanic at Talleres Piba. A little trick that will save us from a difficult situation now that we leave everything (or almost everything) in the hands of electronics .