tomcat59alan said:
Oh dear, whip it off, charge it, then start looking for a drain. Start with the r/f receiver, check what model you have fitted. If it's not the later version you could pull the blue wire off the receiver and see if it helps. You would have to use your remote next to the o/s/r window for it to operate.
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I tend to have to do that anyway - it has never worked from any appreciable distance.
 
Domino, Even if the blue wire is disconnected it can still pickup signals and flatten your battery that's why the second remote works well
 
Luckily I have some spare kit from the solar stuff so I've got a remote fob & relay combo I can wire in if that's the problem.

When I get the battery back in I'll keep an eye on the selector LED to see what's going on.
 
The remotes from my other motors would wake it up which was a bit annoying, made me think now may of the neighbours car woke it up.
 
domino said:
It's a relatively new battery. Installed it in January, bought the biggest one (the one everyone gets) from batterystore.

There must be someone/something new in the immediate area that's waking up the BECM because it's never been an issue before.

Gonna have to get it out and on charge though. May use the smaller, dinky one I have in the shed for solar stuff in the meantime.

What's the best way to access to the old one and remove it without causing all kinds of grief with the alarm etc?
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Cheapo weather-station outstation did mine. I've heard some people have trouble with the old BT wireless routers too. Since I fitted the new RF receiver I've had no issues. Brian's second 12V remote-switch fob is a nice cheap fix.
 
domino said:
It's a relatively new battery. Installed it in January, bought the biggest one (the one everyone gets) from batterystore.

There must be someone/something new in the immediate area that's waking up the BECM because it's never been an issue before.

Gonna have to get it out and on charge though. May use the smaller, dinky one I have in the shed for solar stuff in the meantime.

What's the best way to access to the old one and remove it without causing all kinds of grief with the alarm etc?
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If the battery is completely flat, it may not recover:eek:
 
domino said:
Luckily I have some spare kit from the solar stuff so I've got a remote fob & relay combo I can wire in if that's the problem.

When I get the battery back in I'll keep an eye on the selector LED to see what's going on.
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As Brian posted, the second remote switch works well, wire it in to the orange wire. Think a new post is required on this post.:D
 
Rude awakening for the neighbours there - alarm went bananas. Kept chirping when I was trying to enter the EKA though so I'm leaving it for now lol
 
domino said:
Rude awakening for the neighbours there - alarm went bananas. Kept chirping when I was trying to enter the EKA though so I'm leaving it for now lol
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Did the alarm chirp when you locked the car before things went tits up? If it didn't and the indicators or lights flashed as car was locked as an telltale. Maybe the BECM has had a bit of a fit and may need diags to reset.
 
wammers said:
Did the alarm chirp when you locked the car before things went tits up? If it didn't and the indicators or lights flashed as car was locked as an telltale. Maybe the BECM has had a bit of a fit and may need diags to reset.
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The alarm had never chirped when locking the car. The indicators have always flashed as a telltale but not chirp from the sounder since I've had it?
 
domino said:
The alarm had never chirped when locking the car. The indicators have always flashed as a telltale but not chirp from the sounder since I've had it?
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So what voltage at the battery? If your car has the B-Bus sounder, the chirps may be because the internal battery has gone flat or failed.
 
Haven't checked yet - literally only got it back on after a flying visit to the garage to pick it up. Will check it when I get a chance to grab the stuff from the shed :)
 
domino said:
The alarm had never chirped when locking the car. The indicators have always flashed as a telltale but not chirp from the sounder since I've had it?
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Whatever the telltale is set to Lights/indicators/sounder should work as EKA is entered. If entering EKA is causing sounder to chirp sounds like your flat battery has effected BECM. Do you have a Nanocom. Go into BECM in diagnostic mode (ignition off) and reset alarm settings. Put EKA in with the diags.
 
All sorted now. Went back out, entered eka with no chirping and on the final code the central locking went as it a done before. Went for a run round the block after setting all the Windows and all is well!

Quite fancy changing the telltale to have the sounder on it too so might fiddle with the nanocom later on. Cheers guys!
 
domino said:
All sorted now. Went back out, entered eka with no chirping and on the final code the central locking went as it a done before. Went for a run round the block after setting all the Windows and all is well!

Quite fancy changing the telltale to have the sounder on it too so might fiddle with the nanocom later on. Cheers guys!
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So the chirping was most likely the B-Bus sounder battery flat too.
 
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