Was not happy about having to replace the key fob for my durango the 1st time around, the fob had fell apart on the inside and no longer held the battery in place. However I paid the $200 at the dealership to have the fob replaced. Then a year and a half later the replacement fob stopped working. Went back to the dealership, was told that the fob only as a "1 year or 12,000 mile warranty" and to replace it would be another $200. Now I knew from looking online that Dodge has had a long running issue with quality on there remote entry system, however to sell it and then just stand back and wait a year for the consumer to come back with another $200 dollars is nothing short of robbery. If you know you are selling a piece of junk, and just keep doing it, then all you are doing is taking advantage of your customers.

Coming to this site, I see I'm not alone on this problem. There's a list of people here with this exact problem.

The key/alarm fob on my 2005 Dodge Durango suddenly stopped working 2 weeks ago. I thought it was the battery, but when I opened it, saw that the little strip of metal that holds the battery in was coming away from the circuit board. Forcing the strip back into it's connection allowed the alarm to work, but a day or two later it had popped back out. I did this a few more times, but now the thing doesn't work at all. I tried 2 more batteries (in case the first new battery was defective or something stupid), to be sure that was an additional contribution to the problem, but neither battery did any good.

The dealer charged us $205 to replace a key. ONE KEY! Unfortunately I had sent my wife out to buy it, because upon hearing $205 I would have said screw that and gone and gotten a sweet new alarm that started the car and everything for probably not much more.