I emailed this to my contacts at FCA. If they will participate in the test I volunteer the use of my car and impaired SKREEM. This would be a big help for them and us if it works. Deserves a test. I want them to pull the module, open it and make the repair, close it and reinstall it so no one can say I screwed my car up if it doesn't work. This will also show if they are truly interested in fixing this problem. FCA should be thrilled with using this procedure as it eliminates the use of MB's proprietary program.



Gentlemen: Do you think this might be a solution to the SKREEM situation? This was posted today on the Crossfire Forum. The soldering errors look to be of a similar type that breaks down in the RCM module. Perhaps it is possible that a simple repair like this might “rescue” a faulty SKREEM module, which would eliminate the rigamarole with using the MB system to code new SKREEMS. Here’s what the repair is like.



I’ll volunteer to let the dealer pull my SKREEM, which has failed, and let a qualified solderer have a try at it. But then I thought perhaps the Chrysler/FCA tech center guys or the Lock and Key Department might want to do it. My car could be towed over to Phelan Chrysler, where Arnold the parts manager has supposedly ordered a new SKREEM for it. Before that arrives they could pull mine and send it to your Tech Center or wherever and they could do this procedure and then send it back to the dealer to install and test. If it works, and is as simple as it looks, Chrysler could issue a TSB on it and dealers could repair them. Perhaps this would fix a lot of Crossfires and Sprinters that are now non-op.


Here’s a video of the removal and replacement of the SKREEM module on the Needswings page.


NeedsWings Performance Products. Crossfire SKREEM and Antenna Ring


This is interesting. Of course, it may not be a valid solution, but if you want to test it you can use my car, which is just sitting in my garage (for a bit over 11 months) while waiting for a new SKREEM. Not much of a risk, maybe a breakthrough solution. This would be a miracle solution to the existing situation if it turned out to work. I understand it would only work when put back in the same vehicle, but it appears to need no new parts, just a repair procedure.


My key fobs operate the door locks, trunk and blink the lights. Only the starter function is lacking. So maybe it is a solder failure at some connection, like the RCM situation.


I think this gent may be overseas - Germany or Poland perhaps - and has done this for MB SLK SKREEM units which are identical to the Crossfire part made by Siemens. I worked with some exiled Polish guys back in Berlin in the 1960s, and they were very clever fellows. In fact I think these are the same Siemens parts that were used originally by the Karmann factory. Perhaps the problem is that SIEMENS made some faulty parts that are prone to fail over time. I wouldn’t want to pull the unit myself because then someone could say I screwed it up, but since I need a new one anyway and Chrysler said they would pick up the cost for that at my local dealer, and the dealer will have to pull the part anyway to put in the new one (hopefully soon), I’ll volunteer my car as the test mule.


Why not get a test of this procedure done? If you figure the inane out of the unit at one hour, and this procedure as another hour, that would make the repair a lot less expensive than

new SKREEM modules.