Fault with Landrover discovery 3 Key Fobs

louiselynn7 · May 25, 2011

Hi Can anyone help?

I have a londrover discovery 3 and about a month ago both my key fobs stopped working. When sitting in the jeep the ock and unlock buttons work on the dash which i found strange. I fiddled with the fuses and the key fobs started to work again but now a month later they have stopped again!! Fiddled with the fuses and that didn't work this time!!

I took the landrover to my local landrover dealer and they have had my jeep from 8.30am and i still do not have it back. the put it on the diagnostic machine and they said it came up with no faults by 11.45 so they said leave it with them. We phonrd again at 2pm and still nothing. Come 5 o'clock i was getting slightly concerned so i phoned again and they said still nothing, i questioned them and said i thought that the diagnostic machine was specialist and would tell you any fault, they stumbled a bit and then said well it has come up with a fault with the module but the technitian is not 100% sure!!! I thought they were supposed to be specialists and thought they might have come accorss this problem before!!

Please HELP!!!! Anyone got any ideas????

ratty · May 25, 2011

louiselynn7 said:
Hi Can anyone help?

I have a londrover discovery 3 and about a month ago both my key fobs stopped working. When sitting in the jeep the ock and unlock buttons work on the dash which i found strange. I fiddled with the fuses and the key fobs started to work again but now a month later they have stopped again!! Fiddled with the fuses and that didn't work this time!! I took the landrover to my local landrover dealer and they have had my jeep from 8.30am and i still do not have it back. the put it on the diagnostic machine and they said it came up with no faults by 11.45 so they said leave it with them. We phonrd again at 2pm and still nothing. Come 5 o'clock i was getting slightly concerned so i phoned again and they said still nothing, i questioned them and said i thought that the diagnostic machine was specialist and would tell you any fault, they stumbled a bit and then said well it has come up with a fault with the module but the technitian is not 100% sure!!! I thought they were supposed to be specialists and thought they might have come accorss this problem before!!

Please HELP!!!! Anyone got any ideas????

Yep. Give em more time.

A diagnostic computer doesn't magically wave a wand and fix your vehicle. There still has to be some manual input and in many cases things still have to be manually checked out/tested.

It's not uncommon to go out to a vehicle that doesn't start but the management system says all is ok.

The new system that the main dealer uses gives a load of faults listed in the order that they are the most likely cause. If there are 200 possible reasons for that fault and each one has to be looked into cos yours is the last on the list, how long would you say it would take?

Mr Noisy · May 25, 2011

Don't wish to be picky but I think the problem is that you are sat in your Jeep trying to use a Land Rover key.

3.5 efi · May 25, 2011

Mr Noisy said:
Don't wish to be picky but I think the problem is that you are sat in your Jeep trying to use a Land Rover key.

fair point

louiselynn7 · May 26, 2011

I wasn't using the key in the jeep to lock and unlock,the keys weren't working outside the jeep so i tried the buttons on the dashboard to see if it was the locking system or the keys!! As the buttons on the dash work it obviously isn't the locks themselves!

DiscoLew · May 26, 2011

As Ratty says, give them chance. It's being sorted, you'd only have a problem if they didn't rectify the problem whilst the vehicle was under warranty.

Mr Noisy · May 26, 2011

Face. Palm.

Use Jeep keys for Jeeps, Land Rover keys for Land Rovers.

Jeep keys won't work whether you're in, out or shaking it all about.

Cheers

Mr Noisy · May 26, 2011

Come to think of it, you are probably better posting this question on http://www.discoveryownersclub.org/phpBB3/ because there are not many D3 owners on here.

Also no doubt worth trying googling it because it could well be a common D3/RRS problem, again that non of us old skool lot know about.

Regards.

Fault with Landrover discovery 3 Key Fobs

louiselynn7

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ratty

I'm not special I'm limited edition

Mr Noisy

Coming in your ears.

3.5 efi

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Mr Noisy

Coming in your ears.

Mr Noisy

Coming in your ears.

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