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10-06-2011, 02:13 PM
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I Did A Forum Check For My Jeep, Guess What....I'm NOT Alone With This Dilema! Thing Is They All Said The Same I Did, & That It Is Pricey To Remedy..Just For The Option To Push A Silly Button To Lock/Unlock Your Vehicle. If It Is The Pricey Part, I Am Going 'Old School' And Unlocking With The Key & Locking By Pushing The Door-Button Lock.
10-06-2011, 02:31 PM
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If I Were Better At Putting Things Back Together The Way They Should & Without Making Things Worse, I Would Take The Door Panel Off & Have A Look At The Module To See If There Is A Loose Wire, Or An Antenna, Or Something. But I Am NOT The Type Than Can Take Apart & Reassemble Without Causing More Damage.
10-06-2011, 05:55 PM
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The Key Fobs For My Jeep Are In Sending Good Signal Strength, (I Had Them Tested) But I Have To be In Front On The Passenger Side About 2 Feet Away For Them to Work & That Is If They Decide To. What Could Possibly Cause That? I Was At A Jeep Dealership That Told Me It Is A Door Module That Costs About $315 Plus An Hour's Labor To Put It In, & I Don't Even Know If That Includes The Reprogramming!
I would, however, check with another Jeep dealership before I sunk the $400 in the thing. For that price I'd get a second opinion. In my case, I don't even think about it anymore. The Jeep has been relegated to hauling the trailers and for me doing some running during the day.
10-07-2011, 04:48 AM
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I looked on a jeep forum, & found a few others that had the same problem. I got another estimate, & it all comes down to either a loose antenna wire, some other wire, or connection for still the $70+ dollars an hour TO it being the module which is about $320 +/- Along with the $70+/hour + reprogramming the fobs and module (forgot that amount, I was still trying to fathom the $320 just for the part.)
Is it REALLY worth it to have a remote to lock/unlock a vehicle that you must be closer than 30 feet to use anyway? It could cost from $70-$400 to find out.
What does everybody think? Yes or No?
Is it REALLY worth it to have a remote to lock/unlock a vehicle that you must be closer than 30 feet to use anyway? It could cost from $70-$400 to find out.
What does everybody think? Yes or No?
10-07-2011, 05:50 AM
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Before the HHR, none of my vehicles had remotes, but they also had an available key lock on both sides and the trunk. I was able to survive just fine. I use it all the time now, but would it be worth that kind of money to add or replace? Not to me it wouldn't. 
10-07-2011, 05:56 AM
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I Did A Forum Check For My Jeep, Guess What....I'm NOT Alone With This Dilema! Thing Is They All Said The Same I Did, & That It Is Pricey To Remedy..Just For The Option To Push A Silly Button To Lock/Unlock Your Vehicle. If It Is The Pricey Part, I Am Going 'Old School' And Unlocking With The Key & Locking By Pushing The Door-Button Lock.
Door Lock ? Whats a Door Lock ? ...something vaugley hovering at the base of my memory .... 
10-07-2011, 05:57 AM
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Thanks for your advice. I just posted that very question in the forum to see what the general consensus would be. I am sure Everybody would tell me I am nuts to blow $400+ on being to lazy to open with the key, since I would need to be in that approximate range anyway. I should just go 'old school' and use the key to unlock the door. (That darn HHR spoiled me with the remote starter & working fobs that had great distance & signal strength!)