I Turned My Pke Off Somehow. The Light Is Off I Changed My Batteries In The Fob. Now I Can Not Reprogram Fob Because Pke Is Off Is There A Way To Turn On Without The Fob?

 

Changing the batteries should not require a reprogram. Assuming that everything was working before, the way to arm and disarm the PKE is to hold down the "door" button on the fob. Do this with the key out of the ignition. If the fob is working, the door locks should cycle and then you are armed/disarmed. I have replaced the batteries in mine inumerable times and have not had to reprogram.

Perhaps you already know this stuff and this is not the issue. At this point I would just take it to the dealership and asked to have the fob reprogrammed.

 

I Took It To The Dealer They Said They Could Not Check It Because The Chimes Did Not Work. They Have Never Worked All The Time Just Every Once In A While And When They Did Chime They Were Not Loud But The Pke Always Worked Good.

 

Why do you cap every word?

 

First, I would point my car away from that dealer and run.

The PKE has nothing to do with the chimes other than they both get inputs from the CCM. I have repaired chime units for that same problem. It was bad solder connections on the unit that makes the chime sound.

As for the PKE, I first wonder what the time line is in regard to replacing the battery and having no PKE light. In sleep mode the lamp does not light or cycle for 2 seconds when the key is turned on. So either it is in sleep mode, the lamp has burned out, or the PKE receiver has stopped working.

Somewhere I read by disconnecting the car battery will take it out of sleep mode but will definitely not erase the remote code. Don’t know if this is true, I have never tried it.

When you try to go in the programming mode, I assume the PKE light never comes on and it should even if it is in sleep mode. If you cant get the PKE light to come on doing this, then you probably have a problem in the car and not with the FOB.

Also there is a switch in the steering column that is associated with the PKE. If that single contact does not work correctly, it can prevent the PKE from programming correctly. But I’m not ready to go there yet…its just FYI.

 

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Need to know the year of your car and the chimes and the PKE are connected in a way. They Both share wiring, so the dealers reasoning is, that a wire could have a bad connection and cause both not to work.
When did it stop working and did you change the fobs battery before or after it stopped working?

 

The Light Went Off When I Tried To Program The Fob. I Changed The Battery After The Light Went Off. The Dealer Said Something About All They Could Get Is Flash Codes So The Chimes Had To Work.

 

Do a search on pke and jetjockey, he helped me diagnose my problem. I had the same issues. Mine was a bad reciever and I had to fix a bad connection on a couple wires. Fix the chimes as pcolt told you and get a wiring schematic and check the wiring, then redo jetjockey's test.

 

Firstly as Randy93 has said, please indicate the year of your car. In a lot of questions it makes a big difference. Good idea to fill out your profile also so its always there.

I have to assume at this point your car is a 93 to 96 which are the years that PKE were available. And I sure don’t understand the next sentence. It is also technically wrong.

"The Dealer Said Something About All They Could Get Is Flash Codes So The Chimes Had To Work."

The chimes only uses 4 wires. Power, ground, and 2 inputs which when they get grounded, make the unit chime. There are 3 different grounding combinations which relate to the 3 different speeds of chimes it can produce. I have checked the book for a 94 on this. Power and ground do not share common wires with the PKE. The other 2 wires go directly to the CCM where they are activated when requested.

The only thing common between the chimes and the PKE is the piece of real-estate that they occupy in the dash.

As most are aware of the normal codes that can be retrieved by connecting 2 pins on the ALDL connector (don’t know what year car you have). Well there is a also another 2 pins that can be connected to have the PKE go into its own self test. The test results or codes are displayed on the PKE lamp. If the lamp will not illuminate at all, the PKE is probably is defective.

Trying to put all in perspective you said:

“I Turned My Pke Off Somehow. The Light Is Off I Changed My Batteries In The Fob. Now I Can Not Reprogram Fob Because Pke Is Off Is There A Way To Turn On Without The Fob? “

If I had to make an educated guess at this point, sounds like you did not turn off your PKE. (You would have been able to bring it out of sleep mode by following It4obsesses instructions). Sounds like the PKE receiver has gone bad which is probably the reason the light stopped flashing. When you tried to re-program and could not get the PKE lamp to flash, It was probably due to the PKE receiver (or other car problem) being defective and nothing to do with your FOB.

Sounds like you are getting some strange information from the dealer, or he just doesn’t want to deal with it. Just getting in to the dash is a fair amount of work. It also requires a higher level of expertise to work on the system rather than just changing a water pump which any of his wrench turners can do.

In many cases substitution of the PKE receiver is the quickest way to find out where you are (and costly), and repairs many of the problems. Of course the easy basics should always be check first like fuses, lamp and connections. You can pick a used one up in the after market, and if not needed probably can sell it easy (personally I would keep it).

 

I Have A 94.i Think I Found Out What Is Wrong. When This Happened I Put Some Napkins In My Console And Depressed The Hatch Button And This Held It On. Then I Thought Something Was Wrong With The Pke So I Tried To Reprogram It.when I Brought The Fob Within Range I Disarmed The Pke.a Friend Gave Me Details That Said That If The Hatch Button Is Pushed And Held While A Fob Is Within Range Pke Will Disarm.i Tried The Instructions To Fix But Did Not Work ,i'll Try It Again.

 

I have yet to hear or read about that information about the PKE and hatch relationship. But I’m open to new info and would like to know where that info came from. But OK, I will go with it if it makes a simple solution. Here is how to properly program your 93-96 FOB if you should need it.


1. Move your transmitters out of range (20-30 Ft)
2. Turn on the ignition
3. Push the Trip ODO button on the driver info center twice
4. With in 5 sec. press and hold Fuel Info button until the passive keyless entry light comes on.
5. Turn the ignition off but leave the key in the ignition. (Passive keyless entry light should begin to flash)
6. Bring 1 transmitter into range. The light should stop flashing and stay on to show the code is stored. (If only one transmitter is being programmed skip to step 10)
7. If more then one transmitter is being programmed, bring the programmed transmitter out of range (The light should start to flash again)
8. Bring unprogramed transmitter into range.
9. Repeat steps 7-8 for all additional transmitters.
10. Take key out you are done.

Good luck!

 

I Have Tried And Tried To Program The Fob But The Light Will Not Come On. I Have Replaced The Battery In The Fob,checked The Fuse, Tried To Turn On Pke By Pushing Door Button On Fob But Nothing Happens.