Member Since: 22 Jan 2018
Location: Bristol
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Locked out
Ok I thought I had resolved the whole remote not opening the car, i found and soldered the three wires in the summer and since then all was ok........until today
BIG ISSUE the car was reversed on the drive with the NS very close to the wall of the house, no this morning (cold and frosty) the car will not unlock from the remote, tried the spare and that is the same (spare could be flat as not used much)
So two issues:
1, how the hell do I get into the car as there is no way to get to the NS door lock, is there another way before I try and drag the car across the drive
2, any ideas what the issue may now be, I am tempted to send the key away to one of the shops on ebay that replace the battery etc in the key just in case thats the issue, looks to cost about £25 but you end up with a non gen key case.
open to thoughts please
Thanks Nigel
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2nd Nov 2018 11:12 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
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Good luck with towing it!
How is the car battery? Cold mornings very quickly show up weak batteries, especially on something like a D3 which has very large electrical requirements.
Do you know that the key was being charged? The keys are charged by an inductive loop in the steering column, around the key hole. There are threads about keys not charging.Richard
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2nd Nov 2018 11:31 am
cable
Member Since: 08 Jul 2012
Location: bristol
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There's a chap on here who refurbs keys. Apparantley does a very good job.
2nd Nov 2018 11:49 am
BBDisco3
Member Since: 23 Nov 2008
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Re: Locked out
nthor wrote:
the car was reversed on the drive with the NS very close to the wall of the house,
how the hell do I get into the car as there is no way to get to the NS door lock, is there another way
Simple.... knock the wall down
2nd Nov 2018 12:58 pm
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cable wrote:
There's a chap on here who refurbs keys. Apparantley does a very good job.
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2nd Nov 2018 1:01 pm
nthor
Member Since: 22 Jan 2018
Location: Bristol
Posts: 49
rrhool wrote:
Good luck with towing it!
How is the car battery? Cold mornings very quickly show up weak batteries, especially on something like a D3 which has very large electrical requirements.
Do you know that the key was being charged? The keys are charged by an inductive loop in the steering column, around the key hole. There are threads about keys not charging.
Battery in car all good, checked last week prior to winter
2nd Nov 2018 1:28 pm
Gazellio
Member Since: 09 Jan 2011
Location: Chilterns
Posts: 4130
Any friends locally with D3? Might be able to charge your key if near ignition in their car on a drive however not sure how long this would take. Just a thought.
2nd Nov 2018 1:54 pm
L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 2080
I understand a contactless toothbrush charger will charge the key. Mind, I would expect the 2nd to work unless itself is flat.
2nd Nov 2018 2:07 pm
cable
Member Since: 08 Jul 2012
Location: bristol
Posts: 174
Martin wrote:
cable wrote:
There's a chap on here who refurbs keys. Apparantley does a very good job.
Member Since: 22 Jan 2018
Location: Bristol
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Im In
managed to get in looks like holding the key near the top of the window closer to the roof worked. think I will get battery in key changed and see what happens from there.....also won't park so close the the wall just in case
3rd Nov 2018 1:36 pm
tomo47
Member Since: 11 Sep 2018
Location: Bridgend
Posts: 61
I very recently bought one of the replacement case and battery kits from ebay, piece of cake if you can use a soldering iron....worked a treat.
3rd Nov 2018 7:07 pm
nthor
Member Since: 22 Jan 2018
Location: Bristol
Posts: 49
update
OK key fob has been given new battery lets see if it locks me out any time soon
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