The #1 remote on my '97 ZJ Limited is having problems. It was working intermittently, I changed the batteries, and now it seems to be dead. The Number 2 is working fine.
I've torn it down and cleaned everything that I can find that looks like a contact. Still no joy.
Time to see the dealer? Or is there some trick I've overlooked?
Just the few. Batteries the right type and in the correct way? Contacts touching and not bent, loose, or shorting across the battery.
Sometimes the buttons just give up. I generally take them apart and give a quick swish in contact cleaner, then let dry.
Fairly sure they don't need to be reprogrammed, but then again I ripped the 93 Infrared based system out and put in a clifford. longer range, remote start, window control, and aux output I use to open the garage door. :)
Thought about a newer/better system? If you can live without all the doodads they aren't that expensive.
Also consider that the new battery may well be 'dead'... Happens, especially with the cheap Chinese versions.
I had a package of chinese *spit* aaa batteries that came with a cheap ass led flashlight. Paid 25c for it and just wanted the LEDs anyway. Went to open them up the usual way (by twisting and splitting the package).
and get this.
... bent the friggin batteries ...
EBay.
Unless the OPs remote is different, it should have LED indicator when you pusha da button. If that LED is nice and bright when the button is pushed, it is more likely to be the xmitter is hosed. If no LED, then look for batteries and check the small switches to make sure they havent cracked loose from the circuit board. Is repairable if you have good soldering skills. Would be mystified if it were to need reprogramming since the code is built into the unit, and I'd be disinclined to trust a remote that ever needed reprogramming UNLESS someone messed with the sensor and computer.
Dealer prices suck, eBay has all sorts of them.
Well turns out that I'm an idiot. I put the batteries in backwards.
PEBKAC :)
Been there, done that.
I have the best Chinese crap story of all...
Was installing something in the trunk of a car while on vacation at my mother's in Florida. She had my sister's drill and bits. Black bits, no-name plastic box.
Figured no matter how bad, they'd drill the two holes I needed to mount the thing.
Chucked up the first bit, and started, and bang, it *bent* at a 90 degree angle! Holy crap, Batman, it bent! Figured "a fluke" and grabbed the next bigger bit in the box.
It too immediately bent at a 90 degree angle!
The only time I've ever bent drill bits at a right angle!
Thanks for the update!
Smirk........ At least you were smart enough to find that and humble enough to fess up. Just like I've never put the chain saw chain on backwards............. Not.
My 95 actually works, albeit flakily, with the batteries in bass ackwards. Not that there is a lot of difference between flaky and normal operation.
Now that IS an accomplishment!
I did use a cheap ass file on a piece of aluminum once and broke all the teeth off the file. Guess it was for balsa wood only. :)
Balsa probably would have dulled the teeth.
Budd
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