Spent 2 hours this evening with a scooby mate trying to work out why my key fob had suddenly stopped working, whilst trying not to freak out as only had car 2 weeks

Just been to restaurant with my best mate and she was like don't worry all will be ok...

Changed battery in fob. Didn't work
He took me home (luckily only 2 miles away) and got my spare keys. Didn't work.
Sat in car for a while playing with manual and keys. Didn't work.

Suddenly he leapt out of car and said 'Push the car to other side of car park', so we did. Lo and behold, my keys started working again!!

Moral of the story: I won't park in direct signal of a police antenna. Or I won't go to that restaurant ever again lol.

 

It also happens to my P1

 

Hi!

Yes, this has happened to me on my bugeye a couple of times on the same high street at which point I put 2 and 2 together!!!

If you lift the bonnet and hold the fob to the left of the intercooler it'll work after a few pushes!!

Bloody things........

 

Handy to know, hopefully won't be a next time!

 

our whole fleet of vans done this at our yard , and the roller shutter wouldnt work either. Was. a rogue taxi frequency interferance for a week.

 

Usual cause is RF interference from the likes of mobile telephone towers. My clifford alarm fob became inactive at home but away from home worked fine. turned out a button on a RF remote control was being pressed by something jamming the signal.

 

Lol one of the guys worked down the port had the same problem with his bug.... Luckily I have not experienced this.............yet :-)
(famous last words )

looking forward to... at some point to the paranormal bug eyed key syndrome.... :-)

 

I never had this problem with my uk turbo as it had a decent aftermarket system on it. The joys of Subaru ownership

 

This happened to my bugeye near to police antenna, eventually got it started then got a custom metal shield fitted by Subaru to rectify the problem, not happened since.

 

had this happen on my old blob eye after shopping at lakeside. Had the AA man towing me all round the car park with no joy. So onto the back of his low loader and 2 mins down the road all good. But because he had loaded me onto his truck he couldnt let my car off in a lay by so had to take me all the way home!

 

Wooooow you think thats bad..............wait until you start getting the fuel leaks!!!

lol

Steve

 

I get this problem at the local asda it has a big mobile phone mast opposite what i do is unlock the car with the key get in and shut the door then lock and unlock it with the fob. It seems to work fine from inside the car.

 

wasnt this only on the M series Sigma alarms, the S series shouldn't suffer from this

 

Never had the problem on a bugeye WRX, but some Tesco filling stations used to render the '06 Spec-D immobile.

 

Same thing happens at Lymm services on the M6, there was a convoy of scoobys that met there on the way to a meet and half of them needed pushing off the carpark

 

does opening the door with the key , but not the fob , not set the alarm off ?

 

Don't know that one, as the problem was that I couldn't lock it whilst parked up, so had to manually lock it.

 

I use a cobra alarm so never happened to me luckily.

 

A useful time to know your PIN Code

 

which i dont !

 

umm yeah that was mentioned too, shame paperwork was at home!

 

so how did you roll it away without the alarm going off ?

 

Changing your PIN using a working Key Fob:

- Arm and then Disarm the system using a working Radio Key.

- Within 30 seconds of disarming, type into the keypad: *17856*92*wxyz*wxyz# (where wxyz is your new PIN code)

- Arm the system with the Radio Key

- You should now be able to disarm the system using the new PIN code.


Useful links/downloads........

http://www.scoobypedia.co.uk/uploads...m30_manual.pdf

http://www.scoobypedia.co.uk/uploads..._m30_codes.pdf

http://www.scoobypedia.co.uk/index.p...RemoteControls

http://forums.sidc.co.uk/topic/96215...larm-problems/

 

When I parked up I couldn't arm the car, so just manually locked the car and had food then dealt with it after. So the alarm was never on (thankfully!!) whilst sorting the issue so I could roll it away

 

code now set up , thanks !

 

Oh ive had this plenty of times.... but only when im parked up infront of Toys R Us in Swansea... Strange

 

Car almost done it to me again tonight at petrol station (which I've been twice before and had no problem) so going to get both sets of keys' batteries changed and reset my PIN code, thanks Don Clark