This is an old post, so no sure anyone originally involved is around to respond, but this sounds like the problem I am currently having. (Oddly enough, I also have a mouse, although I think my mouse may be unrelated).
I have had some Skreem-like starter failures, all of which were fixed by disconnecting the battery, letting it sit a bit, and reconnecting the battery, over the last couple years. Maybe 3 times?
Today for the first time, disconnecting and reconnecting the battery didn't result in the car starting, but in the dreaded Skreem reset, where the car would turn over generally a couple times and immediately die. (Oddly not 3 this time, mostly 2 and sometimes 1).
This post at the end says "disconnect battery and unplugged the module for a few minutes" -- and then this was the solution. Does that mean disconnecting the battery and unplugging the skreem module? Is that a possible working reset? Any more recent ideas?
Thanks!
Kara
Originally Posted by
SuperStar
Final version, not as long as I thought: So I read the service manual and it scared me into thinking I have to ship the car to Germany for a proper fix. Then I looked to the forums for a solution, I feel sorry for the poor guy that was 100 miles from home. I tried the reprograming key thing but that didn't work either. And FYI, you dont need batteries in the remote to start the car.
So now I was ready to start a new thread and hope someone was in the same exact perfectly identical situation I'm in, but before I did that i decided to check the fuses. Everything checked out on the driver side so moved over to the passenger side. I opened her up and next thing I knew the hand of the devil came up slapped me square in the face and burned my nose off with a dirty curling iron. And by that I mean i found the mouse!
After four weeks of tearing my car apart and taking the bus, that bloody mouse was in the bloody fuse box! Not bloody in the morbid sense, but the way Europeans mean it.
To this day I dont know how it got in there or why it was flattend like some one shoved it in there. The wire harnesses are tight and there are no apparent vent tubes, but thats not the point of this story.
The point is how did i fix the problem? Well the service manual said nothing about having to reprogram the SKREEM unless you were getting a new one. So it must have a permanant memory. And i put new batteries in the remote thinking maybe they are out of sync with each other and just need too be re-learned as mentioned in other posts
Then I remembered that i put everything back together separately and probably cause a confusion somewhere with the computers.
But I disconnected the battery like 12 times, wouldn't that reset everything? Apparently not. So I disconnected the battery one last time. Unplugged the module for a few seconds, then reconnected it and the battery. Keyless entry worked, and the car started right up!
Moral of this story: don't be generous to a snake cause it probably doesn't care.