Lost Key FOB in vent under driver seat

A long reach pickup tool when she may be able to grab at Walmart in the hart tools section. I believe that vent is fed from down the sides from the console there's a piece that goes under the seat comes out on essentially the under seat passenger floorboard area so you may be able to just pull the carpet up on that side and see the duct and may be able to pull it loose to grab the remote out of it or you could take this tool and try to stick it in there open and grab the remote and pull it out

 

Vacuum cleaner with nozzle attachment

 

12-in ruler

 

Yeah serious shop vac with the crevice tool with also be good like the above poster said maybe one of those five horsepower rigid things

 

Magnet on a telescoping stick from harbor freight

 

Install a turbo and hit the gas hard uphill

 

Ask a dealership for help?

 

Installing the turbo would be more effective and less expensive.

 

After rereading this I'm changing my opinion. If your daughter dropped it in the vent then your daughter should figure it out. It's good for people to be responsible for their own mistakes. When you keep rescuing women they don't become the independent people they claim they are because we keep protecting them like children so they stay children

 

I couldn't agree more. And based on that, PriusChat should close because everyone should solve their own problems. If folks in this forum keep helping each other, we won't become independent people.

 

sliderule

 

In keeping with this line of thought teach her but don't do it for her. Better yet, let her get on forums and find a solution to her problem

 

Honestly... Does she have a friend, or friend of a friend that have tools?

A 14mm socket and a ratchet can easily remove the 4 bolts that secure the seat and move it far enough to fetch the lost key fob..

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That seems to be the OP's plan. He sent a boresnake.with light to his daughter at college.

 

Now I have to look under my seat...didn't know we even HAD a vent down there!

I second the idea of just removing the 4 bolts to lift up the seat to retrieve that FOB....and maybe give some of those car seat foam gap fillers...they really work!

 

sometimes they are along the slide rail, black on black in the dark, very hard to see.

difficult to lose it in the vent, since it's horizontal