it happened to me my intellegent key stopped working, and yes my phone was right next to the keys.. when i put my key in the emergency slot it said key not pushed in far enough so i attempted to pull the key out and it was stuck and i mean really stuck, i called roadside service and they said they would get it towed, i replied i will call a friend get a ride to my house and get the spare key! well after a couple good tugs the key came out, i finally got home grocerys still good! but when i got home i tried the key in the slot again and it would not work and ended up getting stuck again! talk about a bitch i could not imagine if i were several miles from home. now im down to 1 not so intellegent key and the emergency start key slot does not work
JJay 07G35S sixspd nav

 

The slot only works if the battery runs out, not if the key is bricked. Try it with the working key and you'll see.

And make sure you let Infiniti know about your mess... I would get a replacement even if it's one of the old keys. Better to have a spare now and get new keys in the fall than to run into a no-key situation when you really need it.

 

Good call!!

 

it was my bad i thought the key had to be out to work i did not know until the service mgr showed me the whole key goes in! I had no idea i was really pulling on the bare key to come out... i told the service mgr and when she showed me what i was doin wrong, i said dont tell anybody what i did! hah hah

 

OH! So you took out the "valet key" and then stuck it in the dash slot - yikes!

 

ohh yeah i suck...... the best part, is as the very attractive female service mgr showed me the correct way to start the car,,, and this is the gods honest truth a freakin huge bird several hunderd ft up sh** on my car right between me and her it rained bird poo on my just washed car, so back to the wash, i mean it was so bad we thought there was no way her or i both did not get hit!! hah hah....reminds me of a childhood poem.....birdie birdie in the sky, why'd you do that in my eye? I wont weap and i wont cry, but im sure glad that cows dont fly!
JJ 07 G35s sedan sixspd nav bla bla bla

 

I'm confused ... so was it a dead ikey battery or was it a dead ikey?

 

This is quite the thread. It was a cooked I-Key courtesy of keeping it next to a cell phone. Not a dead battery. Then he apparently put the fob into the dash slot, minus the mechanical key.

 

Can the OP please share with us what kind of cell phone you have?

 

its a nextel I670...my phone rang in the grocery store, went to my right pocket, moved my keys out of the way to get to to my phone, when i went to get into my car nothing, and yes i took the mechanical key out and tried to get it to work in the emergency slot, it got stuck, really stuck.

 

That's because the whole fob is supposed to go in the slot not the valet key thing. It wouldn't have mattered regardless because if it is erased the slot won't work - only if the battery is dead.