P38 Remote Receiver Problems

Found someone that sells them at least locally for £150 or so. Britpart wouldn't sell directly to me as it was a "wholesale part". Grrrrrr. If anyone could let me know where I could get a replacement procedure and if it's feasible for a non-car person to fit it or not I'd really appreciate it.

Cheers all.

Any non-car person can do it. Remove the offside rear trim above the rear wheel. The RF receiver sits on the bracket that the back seat clips to. It has two plugs. One with one wire (aerial connector) and one with two wires. Remove fuse F15 to remove the power to the amp (although they can be changed without doing this but if you want to be electrically correct, remove the fuse) and then it's just unplug old and plug in new. Replace fuse. Nothing else to do. It's only a RF receiver. The BeCM does any decoding.

That's great. Many thanks Derek. I'll take a look in the morning. I'll keep you posted. Cheers.

Sorted! As you said Derek it was very straight forward. The new RF receiver is now in and one added benefit is I can now open and lock the car from more than 2cm away. I didn't realise just how close I had to be before until the new receiver was in. Hopefully that will be the end of the dreaded battery drain. With the number of Wifi and other networks here it will certainly test it to the limit anyway.

Once again the advice here has been superb. Many thanks all.

Always good to get a result and good feedback. Hopefully it'll have cured your problem.
Cheers

Reactive freqency of capacitor is calculated using -
Formual is 13442/2Pi FC - gives value of shunt cap for frequency

thank you all i have tryed eka code many times changed fod batterys at last i will be going into the unknown . with a littel bit more help thanks.

BrianH said:

The old unit is on the left and the new one on the right

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where did you get yours from ay£128 thanks bigflem

where did you get your rf ywy500179 from pls

bigflem said:

where did you get yours from ay£128 thanks bigflem

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That was February 2008 !!!

bigflem said:

where did you get yours from for £128 thanks bigflem

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bet he wishes he bought one in 2008 there £196 plus vat now just been looking for one

im not sure if this is like the prob im having i cant seem to unlock the car very easily by remote and if i dont get key in quick enuff then hv to try and lock and unlock again ive sat in the car and stood out side it for 30 odd minutes before just so i can get in and drive

4.6sara said:

im not sure if this is like the prob im having i cant seem to unlock the car very easily by remote and if i dont get key in quick enuff then hv to try and lock and unlock again ive sat in the car and stood out side it for 30 odd minutes before just so i can get in and drive

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Is the RF receiver aerial disconnected?

no got my brother to check that ,thats 1 panel boot window driver side the whole car is driving me to getting a jeep at this rate i feel a total idiot sat there trin to start if i suppose no risk of it gettin stolen lol

its a pain in the rear unlocking and locking sum time u end up walking round round the car or if u in it tryin to start waveing the keys every where cant start by putting the keys in ign and pressing button as just dosent seem to respond half the time

4.6sara said:

its a pain in the rear unlocking and locking sum time u end up walking round round the car or if u in it tryin to start waveing the keys every where cant start by putting the keys in ign and pressing button as just dosent seem to respond half the time

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Either the aerial has gone or the RF receiver is shot. I suppose you looked at the right box? The radio amp is in the same place.

Yes that's where we looked more money another problem lol

Best try and get 3 or 4 probs sorted know there aggghhhh