tomcat59alan said:

Are you sitting comfortably ? Sent my fob away to be refurbed, looked good and worked. Within a few days I was getting the low key battery message on the dash. I contacted the refurb company and asked it they fitted new batteries. They replied they had. When I took them out and tested them they were fully charged but greasy.I wiped them clean and refitted them.I had to enter the EKA CODE to clear a engine disabled message .Now the car will not lock/ unlock using the fob.The red light illuminates when the buttons are pressed. As you may be aware I have the two remote mod, I checked the jog switch and it is completing the circuit between the r/f receiver and the becm.Any idea's (1998my)

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wammers said:

Hi Alan. Look at the metal strip that carries the positive from the batteries to the circuit board connection. It runs down the side of the battery carrier, make sure it is not touching the edge of the top battery. Second one to go in. If it is you will only be getting 3 volts instead of 6. A bit of insulation tape inside over the strip stops this from happening.

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dubbleRR said:

Not telling you how to suck eggs .Did you push buttons on fob while it was in the lock.

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Grrrrrr said:

Might as well mention this while we're on the subject of keys.

My original key is resync'ed in the lock in the usual way. However, my new replacement key refuses to resync until the car has been opened with the button on the old key. The first time it did it I thought I'd just made a mistake but the second time it happened I was more careful. Try as I might I couldn't get the new one to sync. Opened the car with the old one's fob and it sync'ed up straight away after that. As far as I can see that should make no difference whatsoever but the car has different ideas!

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dubbleRR said:

Not telling you how to suck eggs .Did you push buttons on fob while it was in the lock.

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tomcat59alan said:

Thanks Tony will have a look in the morning

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Will report back asap,day full of doc's and nurses and not in a sexual sense.​

James Rogers said:

My dad's new p38 has locking issues... The guy said that he had it looked at and the garage "replaced the back of the fob" (he had no idea about anything tbh.) he said it worked fine for a few months then stopped again. He didn't look I to it anymore after that. The fob has abuse marks on the back where someone has tried to maybe replace the battery?

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Grrrrrr said:

You ought to see the "abuse marks" on mine and I still cannot get the ****ing battery out.

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Grrrrrr said:

You ought to see the "abuse marks" on mine and I still cannot get the ****ing battery out.

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wammers said:

Have you tried an hammer and chisel?

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Grrrrrr said:

Not yet. No much point with my beast scattered all over the garage floor!

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