I usually fish with my Father-in-law and a friend. I always drive and came up with a way that any of us can access my suv whenever needed. I had three sets of keys made that will only open the door (they cannot start the vehicle) and each of us gets one. I hide the actual electronic key in the vehicle and we all know where it is. if one of us needs to drive somewhere, no problem. This also prevents the electronic key from getting lost of wet.

As far as busted equipment - I have several TFOs and have busted one, but it was easy to get the portion replaced (since I live in Dallas, i just dropped in on them on my way to work). They don't even ask what happened - just gave me the replacement part.

JR