Stranded FFS!!!

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Nige

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #1

Nipped into town today, locked up with the plipper, came back & nothing. Not
a bloody thing. First thought - batteries. Luckily i was parked in Maplins
car park, but nothing. I got in OK, but the engine was immobilised ffs!
After a bit of farting about trying various things I rang the local Land
Rover dealer who gave me a code i had to put in through the door lock.
Anyway it worked & the engine started. Cant work out whats wrong with the
plipper. My usual garage told me of a re-initialisation of the handset to
the lock, but it didnt work.

I orderd a no 1 key anyway, so i better not super lock the car again until
it comes or you are stood there like a right fool flicking the key all over
the gaff!!

Nige

 

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Lee_D

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #2

"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nipped into town today, locked up with the plipper, came back & nothing.
> Not a bloody thing. First thought - batteries. Luckily i was parked in
> Maplins car park, but nothing. I got in OK, but the engine was immobilised
> ffs! After a bit of farting about trying various things I rang the local
> Land Rover dealer who gave me a code i had to put in through the door
> lock. Anyway it worked & the engine started. Cant work out whats wrong
> with the plipper. My usual garage told me of a re-initialisation of the
> handset to the lock, but it didnt work.
>
> I orderd a no 1 key anyway, so i better not super lock the car again until
> it comes or you are stood there like a right fool flicking the key all
> over the gaff!!
>
> Nige

You were parked out side Maplins......

do a google on this group for "weather stations" and such like. I dare say
there were a few similar devices switched on in Maplins and your not the
first LR owner to fall foul of them. I'd guess if you pushed the car around
the corner it would have fired up.

Lee
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[email protected]

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #3

Lee_D wrote:

> I'd guess if you pushed the car around the corner it would have fired up.

I don't know about that, the normal problem with these as I understood
it was that they keep on waking up RR ECU and thereby increase the
current to a significant amount, enough to drain the battery as the RR
is "awake" all the time it's parked at home. Nige's battery is OK as
it started the car fine and he wouldn't have been outside a shop for
too long a period to make that much of a difference to the battery
charge.

Regards

William MacLeod

 

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Lee_D

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #4

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Lee_D wrote:
>
>> I'd guess if you pushed the car around the corner it would have fired up.
>
> I don't know about that, the normal problem with these as I understood
> it was that they keep on waking up RR ECU and thereby increase the
> current to a significant amount, enough to drain the battery as the RR
> is "awake" all the time it's parked at home. Nige's battery is OK as
> it started the car fine and he wouldn't have been outside a shop for
> too long a period to make that much of a difference to the battery
> charge.
>
> Regards
>
> William MacLeod
>

I was thinking more along the lines of that much frequency pollution that
the remote was pretty much useless.

I had a Alarm which had an IR sensor (different kettle of fish bt same
principle) on the windscreen and IR fob. If I parked on a pub with a Ansells
/ Bass neon sign I couldn'y disable the alarm unless I cast a shadow in the
path of the light from the sign.

Lee
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Matthew Maddock

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #5

> I was thinking more along the lines of that much frequency pollution that
> the remote was pretty much useless.

I have the same problem on the ferry sometimes. There is this
particular space on the ferry that I've parked in twice, the remote
absolutely refuses to work at all. I had to lock it with the key,
which means I don't have the immobiliser problem, but it is weird.
The first time it happened I thought it was just playing up a bit
as usual, but it happened last week in exactly the same space! Apart
from the occasional time it won't react first time, I've never had
problems using the fob before. My assumption is that as Lee said, that
there is some sort of high strength signal on the same freq as the fob,
which is blocking the fob signal getting to the receiver.

On similar note, I parked up the other day - didn't lock the RR,
but when I came out (about 1 minute later) it wouldn't start and I just
got the "engine immobilised" message. Fortunately I always carry the
code around with me in my wallet and got it going, but no idea what
happened on that occasion as I hadn't even locked the damn thing!

Matt.

 

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Nige

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #6

"Matthew Maddock" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
>> I was thinking more along the lines of that much frequency pollution that
>> the remote was pretty much useless.
>
> I have the same problem on the ferry sometimes. There is this
> particular space on the ferry that I've parked in twice, the remote
> absolutely refuses to work at all. I had to lock it with the key,
> which means I don't have the immobiliser problem, but it is weird.
> The first time it happened I thought it was just playing up a bit
> as usual, but it happened last week in exactly the same space! Apart
> from the occasional time it won't react first time, I've never had
> problems using the fob before. My assumption is that as Lee said, that
> there is some sort of high strength signal on the same freq as the fob,
> which is blocking the fob signal getting to the receiver.
>
> On similar note, I parked up the other day - didn't lock the RR,
> but when I came out (about 1 minute later) it wouldn't start and I just
> got the "engine immobilised" message. Fortunately I always carry the
> code around with me in my wallet and got it going, but no idea what
> happened on that occasion as I hadn't even locked the damn thing!
>
> Matt.

Very odd indeed. It's fine now ffs!!

Nige

 

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Steve Taylor

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #7

Nige wrote:

> Very odd indeed. It's fine now ffs!!

You've got the magic get-you-home trick. Go back and try it again...

Steve

 

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Nige

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #8

Nige wrote:
> Nipped into town today, locked up with the plipper, came back &
> nothing. Not a bloody thing. First thought - batteries. Luckily i was
> parked in Maplins car park, but nothing. I got in OK, but the engine
> was immobilised ffs! After a bit of farting about trying various
> things I rang the local Land Rover dealer who gave me a code i had to
> put in through the door lock. Anyway it worked & the engine started.
> Cant work out whats wrong with the plipper. My usual garage told me
> of a re-initialisation of the handset to the lock, but it didnt work.
>
> I orderd a no 1 key anyway, so i better not super lock the car again
> until it comes or you are stood there like a right fool flicking the
> key all over the gaff!!
>
> Nige

The really odd thing is the trip meter has reset itself at the same time for some odd reason? Anyone
think why?

Nige


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Subaru WRX
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)
110 Hi Cap (Ben)

'"Opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one"

 

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GbH

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #9

Nige wrote:
> Nige wrote:
>> Nipped into town today, locked up with the plipper, came back &
>> nothing. Not a bloody thing. First thought - batteries. Luckily i was
>> parked in Maplins car park, but nothing. I got in OK, but the engine
>> was immobilised ffs! After a bit of farting about trying various
>> things I rang the local Land Rover dealer who gave me a code i had to
>> put in through the door lock. Anyway it worked & the engine started.
>> Cant work out whats wrong with the plipper. My usual garage told me
>> of a re-initialisation of the handset to the lock, but it didnt work.
>>
>> I orderd a no 1 key anyway, so i better not super lock the car again
>> until it comes or you are stood there like a right fool flicking the
>> key all over the gaff!!
>>
>> Nige
>
> The really odd thing is the trip meter has reset itself at the same
> time for some odd reason? Anyone think why?
>
> Nige
>
>
> --
>
> Subaru WRX
> Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)
> 110 Hi Cap (Ben)
>
> '"Opinions are like arseholes, everyones got one"

Hmm.
Wonder if its the same ****e as is screwing up the Laguna I'm using at the
moment.
One of the bonnet switches is dicky and overnight the alarm seems to think
someone has tried to get in and so it sets the immobiliser. Bit of a bugger
cos I don't know how you're supposed to unset it. I find if I open the
bonnet and wiggle the offending switch a bit, the alarm seems happy to let
me start the engine, however, the car god tells us at frequent intervals
that the bonnet is not closed which gets a little irritating after the first
couple of hours just like a nidroc. Only joshing Nigel.

Anyway, the trip reset is part and parcel of this whole car-god thing, it
resets the fuel consumption count and a whole load of other things including
the distance travelled.
Tomorrow that b'std switch is coming out for a darn good clean, if that
don't fix it, bypass surgery will be implemented.

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asked for not what you wanted!

He who says it cannot be done would be wise not to interrupt her doing
it.

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #10

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:10:29 -0000, Nige wrote:

>> Luckily i was parked in Maplins car park, ...
>
> The really odd thing is the trip meter has reset itself at the same
> time for some odd reason? Anyone think why?

Hum, sounds as if one of the computers has thrown a wobbly or had it's
memory fiddled with. Maplins car park, wonder if there was some one
running a bit of RF power from a CB or Amateur rig (HF, VHF or UHF), you
know the odd kW ERP, not impossible with a bit of antenna gain at VHF or
UHF...

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Derek

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #11

"Nige" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Nige wrote:
>> Nipped into town today, locked up with the plipper, came back &
>> nothing. Not a bloody thing. First thought - batteries. Luckily i was
>> parked in Maplins car park, but nothing. I got in OK, but the engine
>> was immobilised ffs! After a bit of farting about trying various
>> things I rang the local Land Rover dealer who gave me a code i had to
>> put in through the door lock. Anyway it worked & the engine started.
>> Cant work out whats wrong with the plipper. My usual garage told me
>> of a re-initialisation of the handset to the lock, but it didnt work.
>>
>> I orderd a no 1 key anyway, so i better not super lock the car again
>> until it comes or you are stood there like a right fool flicking the
>> key all over the gaff!!
>>
>> Nige
>
> The really odd thing is the trip meter has reset itself at the same time
> for some odd reason? Anyone think why?
>
> Nige
>
>
> --
Leprachauns? there was a problem in the upper car parks at the Trafford
Centre ( denied) near to the mobile masts alarms setting lockouts etc no RF
sources thereabouts ? or as Lee suggested (trust him he's a doctor - so
his postie says) the RF off weather stations I have one the remote sensors
are pinged every few minutes for info
Derek

 

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[email protected]

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• Mar 21, 2006

• #12

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:20:39 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:10:29 -0000, Nige wrote:
>
>>> Luckily i was parked in Maplins car park, ...
>>
>> The really odd thing is the trip meter has reset itself at the same
>> time for some odd reason? Anyone think why?
>
>Hum, sounds as if one of the computers has thrown a wobbly or had it's
>memory fiddled with. Maplins car park, wonder if there was some one
>running a bit of RF power from a CB or Amateur rig (HF, VHF or UHF), you
>know the odd kW ERP, not impossible with a bit of antenna gain at VHF or
>UHF...

I visited Fylingdales some years back and it was frustrating trying to
unlock the car even in the visitors car park some way from the actual
site, then again, only to be expected I suppose with the kit in there.
We sussed the pattern to the pulses so there was a collective "blip"
from all concerned
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