PKE problems
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Le Mans Master
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From: Greenville SC
PKE problems
I installed a new battery in the fob, but it only works sometimes.
It is very sporadic, could it be the sensors are going bad in the car?
I will get it to work, walk back and forth, it will lock and unlock. Then I will come back to the car to go some where later, and it won't unlock, or lock when I get out and leave. It will operate when I push the fob button.
Any ideas?
It is very sporadic, could it be the sensors are going bad in the car?
I will get it to work, walk back and forth, it will lock and unlock. Then I will come back to the car to go some where later, and it won't unlock, or lock when I get out and leave. It will operate when I push the fob button.
Any ideas?
Racer
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From: Elkton MD
Pke
If the door ajar switches malfunction, the PKE system doesn't realize that the door has closed and won't lock the car (or vice versa). So the door switches are the first place to look.
A more difficult cause to troubleshoot is the PKE receiver (under the dash) and you'll need a manual to describe the complexity.
Yet another (but crazier possibility) is your cell phone.
If my cell phone is in the car, the fob range is almost zero. If the phone is in the car and charging, the PKE is usually nonfunctional.
Good luck.
A more difficult cause to troubleshoot is the PKE receiver (under the dash) and you'll need a manual to describe the complexity.
Yet another (but crazier possibility) is your cell phone.
If my cell phone is in the car, the fob range is almost zero. If the phone is in the car and charging, the PKE is usually nonfunctional.
Good luck.
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I don't know what it is! It seems like it only pics up the signal well through the back hatch glass. Now when I hold th ebutton down it cycles, but won't just lock! If unlocked if locks and then unlocks again, so I have to manually lock it. When it does work, most of the time when I get in the car it locks itself and sounds the horn a second after I am in the car!! Then I start it and the alarm goes off!
This is really frustrating, and the PKE is one of my favorite features when it works correctly. It has progressively become worse over the last few years. I think the tumbler in my ignition is wearing out or something, when I turn the car off, the radio stays on until I trun the ignition back on like I am starting the car, then it goes off. Could this have something to do with it? The car doesn't know if the key is in or out of the ignition?
This is really frustrating, and the PKE is one of my favorite features when it works correctly. It has progressively become worse over the last few years. I think the tumbler in my ignition is wearing out or something, when I turn the car off, the radio stays on until I trun the ignition back on like I am starting the car, then it goes off. Could this have something to do with it? The car doesn't know if the key is in or out of the ignition?
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From: Elkton MD
Pke
The PKE can be 'activated' or 'de-activated' by holding down the door button on the fob for about 4 or 5 seconds (until the locks cycle fully). When 'de-activated' the 'passive' lock/unlock is defeated. Is it possible this is causing the function/disfunction???
Also, the coupe has one PKE antenna in the driver's door and another inside the rear bumper. Perhaps the one in the door is kaput or intermittent. I don't recollect the antenna placement in a 'vert'.
The added symptoms in the second post could also be tied to an intermittent door ajar sensor.
There were several threads regarding the interaction of the key sensor (in the column lock) with the door ajar gong and with the PKE. Perhaps the service manual has a description of this interplay. Or, try the search tab at the top of this window. I never understood it.
This isn't much but hope it helps. Good luck.
Also, the coupe has one PKE antenna in the driver's door and another inside the rear bumper. Perhaps the one in the door is kaput or intermittent. I don't recollect the antenna placement in a 'vert'.
The added symptoms in the second post could also be tied to an intermittent door ajar sensor.
There were several threads regarding the interaction of the key sensor (in the column lock) with the door ajar gong and with the PKE. Perhaps the service manual has a description of this interplay. Or, try the search tab at the top of this window. I never understood it.
This isn't much but hope it helps. Good luck.
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Le Mans Master
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From: Greenville SC
I am still having issues with the PKE. Most of the time, it doen not work, but once in a while it does, mostly picks up from the rear of the car, not the side. When I puch the door button on the FOB I hear a slight sound in the doors, like it tried to unlock, but won't at least not on the driver side. If I hold down the button like to change the settings, it will cycle the locks and lock or unlock. Sometimes it will only turn on the lights when I push the button, but not open the drivers door. Also once I unlock the doors manually or with the FOB when it does work, the car horn sounds and doors lock about as soon as I get in the car!
I am also having an issue with the radio not shutting off when I turn the car off AND open the door. Could this be related?
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1788205
Both problems are really agravating, and I don't know where to start looking, and don't know if the ignition problem is causing the other problem or compounding it.
Could be the ignition, or a sensor (but then why doen't it still operate correctly from the other sensor?), something wrong with the driver door lock with one of the other problems, control module, or a combination off all of these.
I am also having an issue with the radio not shutting off when I turn the car off AND open the door. Could this be related?
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1788205
Both problems are really agravating, and I don't know where to start looking, and don't know if the ignition problem is causing the other problem or compounding it.
Could be the ignition, or a sensor (but then why doen't it still operate correctly from the other sensor?), something wrong with the driver door lock with one of the other problems, control module, or a combination off all of these.
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I tried checking the switch on the side of the door, seems ok to me.
But now I have another problem! I unscrewed the screws and pulled the switch out some to view, but the wonderful design uses a gasket in back, which is now pushed back in the door, to hold the screws in!!
So I had to leave the screws out and will have to take this panel off soon too, to hopefully reattach. Why don't they thread the holes!!!!!!!!!!
But now I have another problem! I unscrewed the screws and pulled the switch out some to view, but the wonderful design uses a gasket in back, which is now pushed back in the door, to hold the screws in!!
So I had to leave the screws out and will have to take this panel off soon too, to hopefully reattach. Why don't they thread the holes!!!!!!!!!!
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Le Mans Master
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Here is the weird thing, my ignition and PKE started working correctly this evening! Could it be from messing with the door?
see window/door thread
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1789353
see window/door thread
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1789353
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