A very strange experience today
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A very strange experience today
Today I parked the car in the town car park and it wouldn't lock with the remote,so I manualy locked it..came back, the remote wouldnt turn the immobiliser off..so off I go to a jewellers to change the battery on the keyfob £3.50.. came back, still nothing..phoned AA..be here in an hour, so I put in another £1.40 to park while I wait..then some bloke on his mobile was talking to RAC on his mobile and he had exactlly the same problem as me and had just come back from the jewellers to change his battery..then believe it or not another 4 people showed up with exactly the same problem..we were all parked quite close to each other (10 yards or so)..then all of a sudden mine worked so I cancelled the AA..the others were still stuck...on a hill above the car park there are 4 huge masts, don't know what they do but I think they're interfering with some keyfobs..very odd..
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Rumour has it that car thieves have alarm jammers so you "lock" the car & walk away yet cos they've jammed your key fob they can just stroll over to the car & steal contents or the car ... any dodgy looking characters at that place today?
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That's an interesting theory..didn't spot any, but they could have been sat in a car..I was only gone 10 mins
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The ferrie to France is a block on my alarm system. Every Nurburgring trip sees me having to wait until the ships communications have been switched off before I can get in the car and drive off.
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At work we have lorries that deliver large switch gear. They use a mini crane that is operated by a wireless remote control that the driver uses.
While the remote is engaged no central locking works within about 50M. Apparently it sends out a jamming signal so no other wireless gadgets can interfere with the controlling of the crane.
While the remote is engaged no central locking works within about 50M. Apparently it sends out a jamming signal so no other wireless gadgets can interfere with the controlling of the crane.
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Used to happen quite often when I had my first Impreza, MY01 WRX.
If you can, just push it a couple of meters if you can, and hey presto... the key-fob will work again!
It's something to do with the bandwidth the key-fob uses, which is affected by radio masts, infrared/automatic doors etc!
Never had any problems with MY05 STi or MY07 RB320
If you can, just push it a couple of meters if you can, and hey presto... the key-fob will work again!
It's something to do with the bandwidth the key-fob uses, which is affected by radio masts, infrared/automatic doors etc!
Never had any problems with MY05 STi or MY07 RB320
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Used to happen quite often when I had my first Impreza, MY01 WRX.
If you can, just push it a couple of meters if you can, and hey presto... the key-fob will work again!
It's something to do with the bandwidth the key-fob uses, which is affected by radio masts, infrared/automatic doors etc!
Never had any problems with MY05 STi or MY07 RB320
If you can, just push it a couple of meters if you can, and hey presto... the key-fob will work again!
It's something to do with the bandwidth the key-fob uses, which is affected by radio masts, infrared/automatic doors etc!
Never had any problems with MY05 STi or MY07 RB320
Our classic does this, the kebab man is quite used to pushing the car down the road a bit
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Tetra interferance can cause this on older alarms that work on 433-434MHz frequency bands can the alarm receiver's frequency tolerance was not brilliant and picked up noise on freqencies outside of the intended frequency band. This is most notable on aftermarket alarms and factory retrofits that are fitted after the car is built (i.e Sigmas in Subaru and Scorpions in Toyotas etc).
However newer alarms (2002ish onwards) should be fine as they either work on 868Mhz or have better tuned reciever circuitry that filters out the noise from 'out of range' frequencies better. If they play up...look around for someone shifty or loitering in a car.
However newer alarms (2002ish onwards) should be fine as they either work on 868Mhz or have better tuned reciever circuitry that filters out the noise from 'out of range' frequencies better. If they play up...look around for someone shifty or loitering in a car.
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Mine's an 03 Blob, there was an older Rover a Toyota and an Audi A4, that I saw, roughlly all the same age.
Oddly enough, I do recall walking past two Polish sounding women with heavily tattooed legs...the mind boggles.
Oddly enough, I do recall walking past two Polish sounding women with heavily tattooed legs...the mind boggles.
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Common problems with classics up to 2001 then there wasa fix available
Metro centre at Newcastle happened to be guy said he gets called out 15 times a day for these things
Just push the car a few yards to start it
Even appended to me in bq car park as it was near a police transmitter it mobile phone mast
Hold the fob up to your chest and crouch down onto the wing might help
Metro centre at Newcastle happened to be guy said he gets called out 15 times a day for these things
Just push the car a few yards to start it
Even appended to me in bq car park as it was near a police transmitter it mobile phone mast
Hold the fob up to your chest and crouch down onto the wing might help
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Has happened to me a few times, were i used to live there is a police headquarters and if i went to waitrose i would end up being stuck there for a while as the fob wouldn't work. Also happened at a local sainsburys, took just over half an hour for it to disarm itself.
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very common. Had it on my blob. Lakeside shopping centre was especially bad. first time it happened called rac and they towed me all around the car park with no joy. Put me on his flatbed and 2 mins out of lakeside all was well!
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My Toad could be overidden by entering a "PIN" via cycling the ignition switch ON/OFF.
I think some early OEM systems in cars can be overidden the same way or by locking/unlocking the driver's door with the key (i.e MG/Rover).
as the old saying goes: "Read the manual!"
I think some early OEM systems in cars can be overidden the same way or by locking/unlocking the driver's door with the key (i.e MG/Rover).
as the old saying goes: "Read the manual!"
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