Hi guys

Came to start my car this morning and nothing happened when i hit the remote. changed batteries and no joy.

Read lots of posts on here about using pin disarm, thing is, i dont know the pin, neither does the guy i bought the car off, and obviously, now without a working fob, i cant "reset" the pin either.

Im on a tight budget as its nearing xmas, basically is there a way to sort this myself (i assume the fob is out of sync with the alarm) without me having to pay a fortune to have a sigma guy come and mess about with it outside my house?

 

this happened to me once but luckily i have 2 remote fobs.
dropped into subaru and they reprogrammed the faulty one free.

Best buying the spare one while your there. think they are bout 40quid

 

my car isnt a subaru, its a granada cosworth, and i cant drive the car as its imobilised, and if i get in the car the alarm goes off obviously

Spoke to a local company who said its impossible to fix, as the only way to reprogram fobs,is with the alarm disarmed, this is done by using the pIN(which i dont have) so no pin and no working remote = alarm being binned as its uselss!

Please anyone that can help say so, cuz i really dont want to have to have the alarm uninstalled

 

Hope that this is sorted now after our e-mails earlier.

For anyone else reading, always ensure that your spare remote is working and that you know the system's PIN before you need it.

SS

 

would like to jump on this thread as i have the same problem only intermittently, some days alarm works fine then for no reason fob wont work, luckily i know the PIN but that can get frustrating if it;s having a whole day of being broke, at petrol stations i have to use keypad to set then unset alarm to get car started, i have changed both batteries in both fob's but dont understand y it works/doesnt work when it feels like,

 

what year is your car?

 

Had a similar problem on my Transit (fitted with a Sigma S-series), it appeared that the remote was losing its code and after much reprogramming of the remote(s) it only appeared to be only doing it on cold mornings, so i replaced the battery in the remote and this seemed to cure the problem

Tim

 

This sounds more like a case of "Radio Lock Out" - especially if the vehicle was first registered before 2002. Please see my other posts under "Sigma Sam" for further details.

SS