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How old is the battery? If only doing short commute you'll be lucky to get two or three years out of a battery. I assume you have checked it is charging?

If you google battery voltage chart you will se that 11.7 is pretty much shagged. Lots of people think a 12 volt battery is 12 volt, when in fact it is 12.6v when in good health (something you will never see on a d3!) batteries typically have 6...

If you have or can get a handbook for the car, it should have information for indications of a need to change the battery. For example - reduced number of flashes from the indicators on pressing lock / unlock. There might also be a set procedure...

Plus 1 Plse also check the passenger side door sill is not filled with water along with the green splice issue If u do a quick search it will go into more details about the green splice issue U can also charge ur key fob using a toothbrush...

ok cheers for that ,i will have a look at the passenger side first and google green splice,have ordered a new fob so i will see if that solves the issue,the fob i have is just over twelve months old. update, ok just checked passenger carpet and...

ok thanks,the only strange thing was when it did decide to un lock the indicatores flashed really fast about twenty times and then i ended up with this problem,cheers.

ok cheers, will try the simple things first and then may have to delve deeper ,thanks.

thanks for your teply,and yes only one working fob ,bought this one after the old one packed in.funny thing is similar problem.checked fob battery voltage comes back at 3.33v battery is 3.6 volts.i will do as you mentioned and try fob first ,and...

also if the main battery was low would this cause the key fob to lose contact with the car.

Hi and thanks for replying,had car about three years battery already on, battery tester says alternator is ok and also says battery is good. but now i am thinking remote,bought this about two years ago and had it programmed and had no problem...

Hi all haven`t posted for a while ,not had any issues until now,d3 tdv6, 06. went to the car this morning and it was already unlocked, opened drivers door and the alarm went off and wouldn`t turn off. sorry for the long post. any how, the remote...