Check again, the direction of the batteries (and 2 each). Then you have to make sure the FOB is sync'ed to the car for the doors to work. Do a search on how to do this, maybe 'sync key fob?' Am wondering if the FOB worked before changing the batteries? Good luck on this issue.

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Insert key in ignition.
Turn to "on" (not accessory)
Press either button twice.

Turn key off, remove and test function of lock/unlock.

Then, send me the $300.

 

If nothing works , you might try disconnecting you car battery for a few minutes, then reconnect it. If the remote is bad, you can get used ones on ebay and reprogram them , but you have to move the rfid chip from your current remote to the new one.

 

 

 

 

If the battery in the key fob goes bad, will you have trouble starting the car? I am having issues starting the car after it has sat for a couple weeks. The battery on the car is great. The engine turns and turns but it won't start. Once it starts the car runs great and will start up every time. Just wondering if maybe my battery in the fob is the problem. I owned the car 14 years and I don't I ever replaced it.

 

And it is good to see you are still hanging around one hundred!

 

That is a tidbit from the manual that far too few of us know about.

I am convinced that has caused some of the odd little issues over the years.

 

No. The battery-operated transmitter for the lock/unock/panic functions is one thing.

Once you insert the key and turn it to "ON", the SKREEM powers up and energizes the ring around the key, energy is radiated to the RFID chip in the key, the RFID responds with a TINY RF (radio) signal, that has a code in it the SKREEM uses to know that the key is authentic. Power for this function, again, comes from the antenna ring.

 

Do I have this right Mark ?
There's AM, FM, VHF, UHF and now TINY RF. Is that a NASA rocket science thing ?

 

Now quite - this is how it is:

AM and FM are modulation techniques. (As are CW, FSK, C4FM, LSM...)
VHF and UHF are wavelengths. (As are LF, MF and HF (known as shortwave), Microwave...)
But............
TINY is a signal level. (It goes like this: imperceptible, tiny, very very weak, very weak, weak, moderate, strong, intense and bodacious* )





*1970's era CBer's came up with "bodacious" as applied to signal levels.

 

 

10-4 good buddy. Keep the shiny side up !

 

Okay, I'll bite. How big is a tidbit?

 

Will fit between a scosch bit and a tiny bit

 

Got it. So it's a scosch bit, tidbit, tiny bit, bit, bigger bit, biggest bit, and bodacious bit. Thanks

 

But when does a bit become a byte?

 

Whenever a Corona gets it's lime.