towsey956

towsey956

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Hi all

The other night I went out to my disco (‘98MY Brit spec - no spider) and the key fob worked fine, then I went back a bit later and the fob wouldn’t work at all. I got the spare out and it worked fine so I swapped batteries (both batteries about 1 year old) and both fobs worked so I swapped batteries back to the fobs they were in originally and they still both work. I’m wondering if this is common or a sign of things to come, I don’t know if it was a blip with the car or fob

Incidentally, I’ve always had to be close to the car for fobs to work (closer than other vehicles the same), I looked into it a bit once and it seemed that on the d1 it’s the box that’s the receiver under the dash but in a d2 it has a receiver in the roof, has anyone and ideas or tips to make mine any better?

Thanks in advance

Towsey
 
It’s the future mate you should try it :)
There’s another new thing about called “air conditioning”...it keeps shade bathers like me cool at this time of year haha
 
Iffy stand-alone battery connections are not uncommon whatever the item they are used with, i.e torches, remotes, smoke detectors or alarm sensors, as can be found out after the battery is removed and then refitted straight away the item then works, and especially with the single cell the fobs have.

D1s security system remote fobs receiver is built into the security ECU, and has a very short range, after all its 1990s technology but then my RR had a Cobra system and I could lock/unlock from the roof of a 30 story building.

I’ve never found it a problem with my D1 remote fob operating range it’s s within 2 or 3 feet of any door every time, although I’ve noticed that with a fully charged vehicle battery the range will increase by a foot or two I.e locking up after a run.

If you’re having fob or transmission range issues then as RemoteKey suggest the fobs crystal is out of tune and needs replacing.
 
Thanks for that

Thinking along the lines of wot you say the batteries did get a good rub round in their fobs at the time and it all looks ok inside them from wot I could see with a magnifying glass. To be honest it wasn’t a range issue and my range hasn’t been getting worse or anything, it just stopped working all together and I’ve never had a practice at doing the EKA to get in, in fact I’ve never seen the code for it anywhere in the book if that’s where it usually is??? I do see a difference in lock speed and power when battery is fully charged but I think that’s normal

Thanks

Towsey
 
towsey956 said:
It’s the future mate you should try it :)
There’s another new thing about called “air conditioning”...it keeps shade bathers like me cool at this time of year haha
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Poppycock, whats wrong with a knotted hankie on your head and rolling up your trouser legs, be a manly man :p

I love my retro ride (when I actually drive it and not weld it or fix it :rolleyes:) it's a hark back to a time long before leccy windows, aircon, ABS, EBS, ESP blah blah blah.......

Hope you find resolution.
 
discool said:
Iffy stand-alone battery connections are not uncommon whatever the item they are used with, i.e torches, remotes, smoke detectors or alarm sensors, as can be found out after the battery is removed and then refitted straight away the item then works, and especially with the single cell the fobs have.

D1s security system remote fobs receiver is built into the security ECU, and has a very short range, after all its 1990s technology but then my RR had a Cobra system and I could lock/unlock from the roof of a 30 story building.

I’ve never found it a problem with my D1 remote fob operating range it’s s within 2 or 3 feet of any door every time, although I’ve noticed that with a fully charged vehicle battery the range will increase by a foot or two I.e locking up after a run.

If you’re having fob or transmission range issues then as RemoteKey suggest the fobs crystal is out of tune and needs replacing.
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Simple trick to increase the range, put the fob against your head when you plip the plip. NO idea why it works but it does. Even saw it demonstrated on Top Gear back in the days of Jezza Clarkson. And no one seemed to know why it worked then either! Helps when you walk too far away from your truck before remembering to lock it.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Simple trick to increase the range, put the fob against your head when you plip the plip. NO idea why it works but it does. Even saw it demonstrated on Top Gear back in the days of Jezza Clarkson. And no one seemed to know why it worked then either! Helps when you walk too far away from your truck before remembering to lock it.
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It also does that by pushing the remote into the palm of your other hand and then pressing the fob button, something I tried after seeing the top gear demo.
 
Sure does, me and one of my mates have been telling people about that for years, definatly works

And yeah I’m with you really DD, one reason I wanted a good late d1 was in the hope it could be kept good as an everyday driver aswell as off roader. I have often said about land rovers that they are a tinkering mans machine that always need sumat doing to them weather it’s fixing or just improving, and also try and fix the jobs as they come along because ‘il do it sometime’ soon lands you with a vehicle that needs loads of little jobs doing that you can’t be bothered to do and next thing is you own a nail

Towsey
 
discool said:
It also does that by pushing the remote into the palm of your other hand and then pressing the fob button, something I tried after seeing the top gear demo.
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Must be something to do with the volume of water in the human body acting as a booster aerial or something.
 
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