PKE issues
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Le Mans Master
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From: Myrtle Beach SC
St. Jude Donor '05-'06
PKE issues
I thought my Fob battery was going last week as the distance from the car that it works got real short had to wave it near my door handle. It even did not work one day had to unlock with the key. I changed the oil today and guess what the PKE now works like it did before around 8ft from the antenna areas. I know the change had no effect on it just coincedental but this is weird. Has this occured with anyone else? What is going bad here the fob or the PKE controller?
Melting Slicks
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From: Howard PA
This happened to me just yesterday. I picked up my son from daycare and walked up to the passenger side of the car waiting for the "click"... it never happened.
I shook the fob and still nothing, then I moved about a foot from the car and it unlocked.
I looked through the manual at the zones of operation and I think you can actually sneak through a dead zone. Kind of like a blind spot.
Don't let it worry you unless it gets worse.
I shook the fob and still nothing, then I moved about a foot from the car and it unlocked.
I looked through the manual at the zones of operation and I think you can actually sneak through a dead zone. Kind of like a blind spot.
Don't let it worry you unless it gets worse.
Drifting
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From: Hopkinsville KY
I was having trouble with mine also, it wouldn't unlock the door when I walked up to the car, unless I pushed the door button on the FOB, which would unlock both doors. I finally took it apart, and one of the components had come loose and needed to be re-soldered. The loose component was a small cylindrical object, right between the door and hatch buttons, that attaches to the circuit board. When I would push the door button, it would make the connection, thus unlocking both doors.
I doubt that this is the same problem on anyone else's, but it never hurts to pass this info along.
I doubt that this is the same problem on anyone else's, but it never hurts to pass this info along.
Last edited by KY Vette; Jun 23, 2005 at 09:55 PM.
Melting Slicks
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From: Howard PA
That would be the crystal. Simply put... It provides a fixed frequency that the transmitter counts down to different pulses for different operations.
They're common problem in any remote control, the high frequency in the legs of the device tend to break down solder. I've even found them rattling around in TV remotes, resolder them back in and eveything works fine. Sometimes they're glued to the PCB to try to prevent them from vibrating loose. So to speak.
They're common problem in any remote control, the high frequency in the legs of the device tend to break down solder. I've even found them rattling around in TV remotes, resolder them back in and eveything works fine. Sometimes they're glued to the PCB to try to prevent them from vibrating loose. So to speak.
Instructor
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From: naples fl
I have a similar problem, when I walk up to the car nothing happens, then I shake the key and sometimes it opens and sometimes it doesn't, pressing on the door unlock button doesn't work either, but sometimes the key will work fine the first time I walk up to the car, I would say my FOB fails 50% of the time. I also have a problem openning the hatch, when I get right behind it and click on the hatch button nothing happens, but if I move to the left a little bit and press it it works fine, is there a way of recalibrating the system? It looks like the system doesn't know where I am or thinks I am further from the car then I really am. can anybody point me in the right direction please?
Race Director
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From: Slidell Louisiana
I had an intermittent problem with mine and thought it was the FOB battery. I changed the battery and within a few weeks my intermittent operation returned. To make this story short my battery was loose. I bent the tabs and that fixed it for a short while. So I glued some foam to the battery and all is well! I guess I am too rough with my keys.
Burning Brakes
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From: Pittsburgh Pirates PA
mine quite working 2 months ago, and sometimes is just clicks and the locks click but nothing... hate the thing anyway, i just keep it because it came with the car...
... so today, i was walking around the car, walked away, and the damn think worked out of the blue.. now it works just fine
regardless they still are a piece of crap.
... so today, i was walking around the car, walked away, and the damn think worked out of the blue.. now it works just fine
regardless they still are a piece of crap.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Howard PA
I don't know, when the system is working perfectly it's blessing not to have to fumble with the fob at all. You guys sound like you have some loose connections in your fobs, take it somewhere to have everything inside resoldered. Should be a quick job for any electronics tech.
Melting Slicks
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From: Howard PA
I don't know, when the system is working perfectly it's blessing not to have to fumble with the fob at all. You guys sound like you have some loose connections in your fobs, take it somewhere to have everything inside resoldered. Should be a quick job for any electronics tech. I did mine in about ten minutes including replacing a bad chip cap.
Pro
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From: Decatur Alabama
after my PKE system cycled the door locks and popped the rear hatch a couple, three times while going down the road i threw the fob in a drawer and left it there....still had a couple of lock cycles and hatch pops, but the system seems dormant now....
