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bish789 Member Since: 30 Apr 2012 Location: St. Andrews Posts: 512 |
Theory was that you were using your body as a big aerial. |
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15th Jan 2013 8:35 pm |
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taztastic Member Since: 03 Feb 2011 Location: North West Posts: 8652 |
Mine works from my pocket so the big aerial theory must be correct |
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15th Jan 2013 8:43 pm |
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bish789 Member Since: 30 Apr 2012 Location: St. Andrews Posts: 512 |
At last, I'm good for something, I'm an aerial |
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15th Jan 2013 8:45 pm |
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AiiEEX Member Since: 30 Sep 2010 Location: Norfolk way Posts: 642 |
I believe it goes into "sleep" mode after 3 weeks of non use. That's when you need to use the key to gain access and get everything going again.
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16th Jan 2013 4:10 am |
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Crabeye Member Since: 05 Jan 2012 Location: UK Posts: 14 |
Nah, certainly something wrong. got out the car today in an empty car park and had to press the fob six times before it locked.....I was less than 5 feet away. |
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16th Jan 2013 7:53 pm |
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Max S Member Since: 29 Oct 2012 Location: Stockholm Posts: 11 |
I had the same problem today (tried my other key fob too with no success); seems to have been somehow connected to the cold weather (around -17 C in the middle of the day...). After standing in a garage at +7 C for a few minutes: working again (also outside)! |
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19th Jan 2013 4:50 pm |
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isbjorn Member Since: 22 Jul 2013 Location: Cumbria Posts: 4 |
The truth of this matter, direct from Landrover Head Office, is that the central locking system is DELIBERATELY pre-programmed to become unresponsive, WITHOUT WARNING, to the key fobs after a nominal 28 days, BUT COULD BE LESS, depending the state of charge of the main battery. I KNOW THIS TO MY COST. Twice now my Freelander 2 has autonomously immobilised itself in my garage. As my garage is of a typical UK single garage width, I have to position my car just left of the centre line so that I can get out of the driver’s door, thus I am unable to open the left hand passenger door far enough to make a full body entry to be able to reach the docking station from that side. So I have had to call out Landrover Assistance and on each occasion the technicians were totally perplexed and had to call Landrover technical specialists who told them it had gone into sleep mode and, since there is no master key, the only means of recovery was to make a forced entry. This requires the owner to sign a form to authorise the forced entry, including a waiver of rights to any recompense for any damage so caused, even when the car is within warranty and the owner is not in any way responsible. If an owner declines to sign the form the technicians will depart leaving the owner with their car stuck in their garage. On the second occasion, the top edge of my driver’s door frame was left jutting out by about an inch. Fortunately, I had only single locked the car, thus it was possible to lasso and pull on the internal door handle to gain entry. However, had I double locked the car then pulling on the internal door handle would have been ineffective and the only recourse would have been to break the driver’s door glass to get the upper body through to reach the docking station. Landrover say that the owner can only protect themselves from this perfect booby trap by starting the engine and allowing it to reach operating temperature, which will then reset the sleep mode function. So, if you intend to leave the vehicle parked up for a while you will need to arrange for this, through a delegate if necessary. However, the owner’s manual specifically warns against allowing the engine to reach operating temperature by idling so you may need to pay an extra premium on your insurance policy to provide comprehensive (damage) cover for any driver so that your delegate can drive your valuable car on the road. However, there is no indication as to the status of the sleep mode “countdown” function so the driver, being you or your delegate, will have no idea whether you have actually driven it for long enough to reset the booby trap. This is, effectively, why I was caught by the booby trap on a second occasion – all of my defensive plans were to no avail. If an owner only uses their car for short journeys each day, then the sleep mode may never get reset and such an owner could be caught out at any moment. For other owners, as the car battery ages and its maximum capacity to hold charge diminishes, then the time for the charge to fall to the critical level at which it will go into sleep mode will get gradually shorter, so they can have no hope of anticipating when it might go into sleep mode and hence defend themselves against this booby trap – YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Landrover says the reason for the sleep mode is to ensure, that having got into the car, there is enough charge remaining in the battery to start the car. This seems nonsense to me as getting into the car is an essential prerequisite to anything else, so it matters not a jot whether there is enough charge to start the engine. Given a choice, would you rather be able to get into your car and then apply a battery charger for 30 minutes and/or get a jump start or have to suffer your car being damaged as result of a forced entry? Landrover further say that the key entry is on the left hand side because the majority of production is for the left hand drive market. So, having built in a feature to deliberately lock the owner out, at least for left hand drive owners, Landrover have optimised the chance of self-recovery from a sprung booby trap as the key is on the driver’s door, which is the least likely to be obstructed being the door from which the car was last exited. However, as Landrover do not transpose the key lock to the right hand side, along with the steering wheel and foot pedals, it is clear that they consider RHD owners to be a lesser class of citizen as we are not afforded the same level of opportunity to self-recover from the sleep mode booby trap. We RHD drive owners have to suffer the risk of damage to our cars through the making of forced entries – all this because of a perverse design feature.and a manufacturer which is too cheapskate to transpose the key lock to the RH door for the RHD market.
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23rd Jul 2013 6:17 am |
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ad210358 Member Since: 12 Oct 2008 Location: Here and There Posts: 7464 |
And welcome to the forum, do you have a relation in Wiltshire p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior |
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23rd Jul 2013 5:09 pm |
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pab Member Since: 28 Aug 2012 Location: Now in Mid-Wales Posts: 2006 |
Feel better now isbjorn?
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23rd Jul 2013 5:23 pm |
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flylr Member Since: 03 Apr 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 281 |
Same thing happened once on my 2010 Freelander. Just once in nearly 65000 miles! And it was after a motorway drive when parked at the services so battery was not low. Worked flawlessly every other time. (Coming) 2016 RR Evoque td4 180 HSE Dynamc
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23rd Jul 2013 7:24 pm |
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isbjorn Member Since: 22 Jul 2013 Location: Cumbria Posts: 4 |
In response to pab's suggestions:-
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23rd Jul 2013 10:49 pm |
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pab Member Since: 28 Aug 2012 Location: Now in Mid-Wales Posts: 2006 |
Well with that response I think you just lost any interest you had from anyone here! You'll just have to worry about it by yourself.
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24th Jul 2013 8:46 am |
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ad210358 Member Since: 12 Oct 2008 Location: Here and There Posts: 7464 |
With a rant of first post what did you really expect, normally members introduce them selves but oh no, you post one hell'uva arrant and want sympathy p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior |
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24th Jul 2013 5:02 pm |
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20090 |
IsbJorn your obviously a little frustrated, but passing out provicating replies to established forum member will get you nowhere on the forum
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24th Jul 2013 6:14 pm |
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