weather stations (wireless)

:whoosh:Here's a weird one I parked at a friends house tried to set alarm with key fob to no avail so I just used the key ,had a cuppa and a chat after an hour went back to disco opened door alarm went off un able to disarm (called RAC) he could do nothing, so got a transporter to move car to garage,
arrived at garage recovery driver got in and car started Aylmer's checked car out and could find nothing wrong ok off I went a day later went back to friends house decided to leave car un locked ..went to leave immobiliser was on
got my mate to tow me 30 yards from his house and car started, upon investigation found two other people had car problems talking to one guy I asked him how long had he had this problem he said a couple of weeks I asked him how long he had had hes wireless weather station and replied a couple of weeks
I asked him to turn it off which he did and guess what car started first time

hertsrescue said:

:whoosh:Here's a weird one I parked at a friends house tried to set alarm with key fob to no avail so I just used the key ,had a cuppa and a chat after an hour went back to disco opened door alarm went off un able to disarm (called RAC) he could do nothing, so got a transporter to move car to garage,
arrived at garage recovery driver got in and car started Aylmer's checked car out and could find nothing wrong ok off I went a day later went back to friends house decided to leave car un locked ..went to leave immobiliser was on
got my mate to tow me 30 yards from his house and car started, upon investigation found two other people had car problems talking to one guy I asked him how long had he had this problem he said a couple of weeks I asked him how long he had had hes wireless weather station and replied a couple of weeks
I asked him to turn it off which he did and guess what car started first time

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Yep I've come across it before at work and CharelsY had problems with his disco2 after setting up his wireless weather station.

Wifi units, wireless doorbells, petrol station forecourts, telephone and radio transmitters etc are all common interference devices too.

There's a bit of the M1 I drive on fairly regularly, just north of the A52 turn off to Nottingham, where my TD5 becomes unresponsive to the throttle. Not for very long- just long enough for me to think maybe I should put the hazard flashers on and try to get onto the hard shoulder and have a quick look down to see if there are any warning lights on - and then off it goes again. Subsequent checks with the Nanocom don't disclose any faults and it hasn't done this anywhere else. So I wonder about electromagnetic interference. It doesn't do it every time, but often enough to make me wonder.

Must be something wrong with my weather station, the D2 is parked within a few metres of it most of the time and it's fine

Nigel-S said:

Must be something wrong with my weather station, the D2 is parked within a few metres of it most of the time and it's fine

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I can always come over and break yer remotes if yer feeling left out?

Here's a remote wireless weather station which won't cause electrical interference:-
http://www.thenancyway.com/sites/338/uploaded/images/20130219weatherworm3.jpg

remote because you hang it outside and check on it through your window

Its only because some of the weather stations and thousands of low power devises are on the same radio frequency as your key / security ecu's are .mate of mine parked up at the local coastguards lookout a while ago but he had to walk home as their UHF kit was overpowering the remote on his LR ,went back after the emergency which was unfolding had stopped and radio was quiet lol.
EU uses 433MHz, and Japan and some other export markets, 315MHz.
Radio ham and other users such as military use the Eu bands too .
Early, pre-1996 Lucas 5AS units used an earlier design radio-frequency receiver. Later re-designed, these early units can be very susceptible to local radio-frequency (RF) interference. This can prove to be a real nuisance – but rectification could prove to be either inconvenient or expensive (or both). Two options are:

Replace the existing Lucas 5AS ECU with a later version, get the engine control unit coded to the new Lucas unit, and your existing fobs coded to that. Or –
Send away your existing 5AS unit to a specialist for replacement of the RF receiver.
Finally, the fobs – and particularly the rubber buttons are prone to wear. Fortunately the micro switches seem to survive well, and all that is required is a replacement case – which is supplied as part of a repair kit, part number YWX101010.
hope this helps your queery . happy new year one and all