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Key code error.
Petrol bug, 2000 model
The battery was removed to charge it, it was replaced and the car wouldn't start. Key code error and the key not giving bleep and flash when locking/unlocking.
Finally called RAC who tinkered with a laptop, said engine management part of the ecu wasn't powered. He took out all manner of relays and fuses and reseated them but I think the thing that cured it was a spray of contact cleaner on a wide data cable (?) connector from down behind and to the left of the battery somewhere.
The feeling of relief when the warning light went out and the engine fired up.
Things were a lot easier in the old Strada days and the 2300 years before that
Petrol bug, 2000 model
The battery was removed to charge it, it was replaced and the car wouldn't start. Key code error and the key not giving bleep and flash when locking/unlocking.
Finally called RAC who tinkered with a laptop, said engine management part of the ecu wasn't powered. He took out all manner of relays and fuses and reseated them but I think the thing that cured it was a spray of contact cleaner on a wide data cable (?) connector from down behind and to the left of the battery somewhere.
The feeling of relief when the warning light went out and the engine fired up.
Things were a lot easier in the old Strada days and the 2300 years before that