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63falcondriver 01-02-2012 07:19 PM

My battery connection broke in my fob and I soldered it back together. I thought it was an anomaly but it appears it is a weakness in the design. I also had the alarm activate when unlocking with the key. Hate that!

Blue_SS 01-10-2012 08:30 AM

Bumping this because I thought I had a bad fob, but it appears it's something else. The fob has been flaky lately - sometimes working and sometimes not.

Well, I discovered that when it won't work, the key works fine in the door, without any alarm! So I think the security module (or some such thing) is erratic. When the alarm is actually on, the fob works fine. Any ideas on what to do next?

Stevethefolkie 02-13-2014 03:57 PM


Originally Posted by 07azhhr (Post 599979)
Try setting your door locks in the DIC to drivers only when turning off the car. This will allow you to already have all the other locks locked when you shut the car off. Then all you have to do is get out, shut your door, and lock it with the key.

Brilliant - now I can lock my car at work and not have to carry around the key fob in addition to the key. It was on page 3-45 of my owners manual - suppose I should have read it some time ago!

Thanks

Steve

senfield 09-29-2014 01:43 PM


Originally Posted by 843de (Post 598922)
:welcome8: to the forum tgp1994!


Here's a trick to try, lock the door with the key not the power lock button, then open the door with the key....the horn should stay blissfully quiet.

If it doesn't work the first time, unlock all the doors, then lock each door manually and then lock the driver's door with the key. Then try unlocking the driver's door with the key, the horn should remain silent.

This is great as long as no one tries to enter the vehicle through the back hatch which doesn't lock manually.

db/sb 10-01-2014 12:47 PM


Originally Posted by senfield (Post 760075)
This is great as long as no one tries to enter the vehicle through the back hatch which doesn't lock manually.

Yes it does. You grab the handle and push it closed....that would be manual wouldn't it??

User 11223 10-01-2014 01:09 PM


Originally Posted by db/sb (Post 760297)
Yes it does. You grab the handle and push it closed....that would be manual wouldn't it??

Isn't he talking about how the back hatch uses a sort of push button which then opens the latch keeping it closed? I guess I never thought of how the car decides whether or not it should open the hatch... Perhaps if the passenger doors are locked?

db/sb 10-01-2014 02:21 PM

He said "the back hatch which doesn't lock manually" after awakening this over 7 month old thread to add that bit of superfluous/incomplete/misleading information. He didn't say unlock which can only be done with the remote unless you consider the emergency release.


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