Remote Has Stopped Working

[Durbs]

I arrived at work this morning and tried to lock my car with the remote. The red LED on the remote flashes but nothing happens. The only strange thing that seemed to happen prior to this was that whilst driving to work my cd paused and the stereo beeped twice before resuming.

Does anyone know if these two things are linked or what the problem may be?

[DaveEllen]

Same thing happened to me y/day evening.

Car wouldnt lock tried all three keys to no avail.

Went up the road for some petrrol and it worked OK........Remember reading on here once that your key fob could be "blocked" by other microwave transmitters....

didnt have the bleeping cd tho

[Durbs]

Two hours later and it has started working again!! Bizarre!

Maybe it was interference from a microwave link which has now been switched off.

Doesnt explain the beeping stereo though!!

[bondms]

my cd paused and the stereo beeped twice before resuming

This sounds to me like the RDS tried to tune into a traffic report but probably gave up due to the signal being too weak or something.

[Nick_27_UK]

Hi

I had this problem this evening, then I remembered I once read on here, that if any door or the boot, is not shut properly the car will NOT allow you to lock it! Once I found the door in question, it loced straight away :o)

As for microwave signals blocking this, I cannot see that happening. Microwave signals are above 1GHz, where as a car transmitter is either 433MHz or now more commonly 868MHz in this country. How do I know this? Well I used to test alot of car keyfobs when I was a approvals engineer :o) However, TETRA is now operational, this is used for emergency services communication and it just so happens that it works on roughly 433MHz! So, that could be a problem, if you have a TETRA mast near your work or home. Hence the move to 868MHz.

Hope this helps. :zee:

Nick.