Technical Remote Opening Problems

Currently reading:
Technical Remote Opening Problems

Joined
Mar 21, 2006
Messages
3,162
Points
589
Location
Looking at an empty Glass
I have been suffering for a while with a very inconsistant range of the remote key. ie you can stand in exactly the same place and one time it will open and another time it wont. when it is really playing up I have to stand right next to the car to open it.

so far this has been looked at 3 times by my local dealer and after two new keys and body computer software updates I still have the problem. They have now decided that it needs a new antena, but have admitted that it is a bit of a shot in the dark as everthing else has been changed except that. I am slightly nervous as the service manager says they have never changed one before and will have to find out where it actually is they think it's in one of the door pillars. :eek:

Has anyone else had problems like this at all or am i trail blazing again :(
 
This doesn't help you in your query, but I had your problem with my previous Astra.

Somedays it would work from the other side of the car park, the next day I would have to be standing next to the damn driver's door for the thing to work.

Funnily enough it always worked better for the rest of the day once it had been 'bleeped' in the morning. The next morning I could be back at the driver's door again!

Never did get to the bottom of it in 5 years! See, I told you I was no help. :eek:
 
i love mine, i can lock my car from the other end of the garden :D


EDIT:

put the key on the side of your head and then click. trust me. it works :p
 
Yes me too, on my GP.

But I think that might be what's called rubbing salt in the wound for poor old alanhelen!
 
Back
Top