Bongo Fury

Simply bending the contacts, to ensure that the battery was a tight fit, fixed our remote central locking key fob. Hooray no more searching for the key hole in the dark!!
Our remote central locking packed up recently so I changed the key fob battery but this had no effect. I searched the forum and returned 34 pages of results so perhaps this is a common problem After a lot of trawling and trying out a number of re-programming / re-synching suggestions, checking the battery earth connection, and inspecting the door wiring (a lot of people suggest that this might be the issue) I was inspired by cozmo1589 who fixed theirs by dissassembling the key fob and cleaning it. This also worked for us! Thanks for all the helpful advice -what a great resource!

ok so heres how not to deal with a key fob -if your car has an engine immobiliser -if this is the last straw in a series of unfortunate events do not panic when opening it and pull the little thing that looks like a calculator battery out -thats the chip the battery is instead hidden under a cover and slides out quite easilly.If you do make such a mistake do not call out an autoelectrician too your remote home and then realise you havnt got any cash or a cheque book -do not have him follow you too the nearest cashpoint in his dodgy white van pull in to the local school yard (the only possible place to park -and then complete the transaction with your grandsons teachers looking on - not that i would know anyone daft enough to do anything so dumb.

karena wrote: ok so heres how not to deal with a key fob -if your car has an engine immobiliser -if this is the last straw in a series of unfortunate events do not panic when opening it and pull the little thing that looks like a calculator battery out -thats the chip the battery is instead hidden under a cover and slides out quite easilly.If you do make such a mistake do not call out an autoelectrician too your remote home and then realise you havnt got any cash or a cheque book -do not have him follow you too the nearest cashpoint in his dodgy white van pull in to the local school yard (the only possible place to park -and then complete the transaction with your grandsons teachers looking on - not that i would know anyone daft enough to do anything so dumb.

I think I'll stick with conventional keys for as long as possible!

Never had any problem finding the keyhole. It's probably different if you are out of practice!


Frank

wasnt the bongo - its built in too the rover so no choice -how i love technology