Stranded FFS!!!

You were parked out side Maplins......

do a google on this group for "weather stations" and such like. I dare say there were a few similar devices switched on in Maplins and your not the first LR owner to fall foul of them. I'd guess if you pushed the car around the corner it would have fired up.

Lee

I don't know about that, the normal problem with these as I understood it was that they keep on waking up RR ECU and thereby increase the current to a significant amount, enough to drain the battery as the RR is "awake" all the time it's parked at home. Nige's battery is OK as it started the car fine and he wouldn't have been outside a shop for too long a period to make that much of a difference to the battery charge.

Regards

William MacLeod

I was thinking more along the lines of that much frequency pollution that the remote was pretty much useless.

I had a Alarm which had an IR sensor (different kettle of fish bt same principle) on the windscreen and IR fob. If I parked on a pub with a Ansells / Bass neon sign I couldn'y disable the alarm unless I cast a shadow in the path of the light from the sign.

Lee

I have the same problem on the ferry sometimes. There is this particular space on the ferry that I've parked in twice, the remote absolutely refuses to work at all. I had to lock it with the key, which means I don't have the immobiliser problem, but it is weird. The first time it happened I thought it was just playing up a bit as usual, but it happened last week in exactly the same space! Apart from the occasional time it won't react first time, I've never had problems using the fob before. My assumption is that as Lee said, that there is some sort of high strength signal on the same freq as the fob, which is blocking the fob signal getting to the receiver.

On similar note, I parked up the other day - didn't lock the RR, but when I came out (about 1 minute later) it wouldn't start and I just got the "engine immobilised" message. Fortunately I always carry the code around with me in my wallet and got it going, but no idea what happened on that occasion as I hadn't even locked the damn thing!

Matt.

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Very odd indeed. It's fine now ffs!!

Nige

You've got the magic get-you-home trick. Go back and try it again...

Steve

Hum, sounds as if one of the computers has thrown a wobbly or had it's memory fiddled with. Maplins car park, wonder if there was some one running a bit of RF power from a CB or Amateur rig (HF, VHF or UHF), you know the odd kW ERP, not impossible with a bit of antenna gain at VHF or UHF...

Leprachauns? there was a problem in the upper car parks at the Trafford Centre ( denied) near to the mobile masts alarms setting lockouts etc no RF sources thereabouts ? or as Lee suggested (trust him he's a doctor - so his postie says) the RF off weather stations I have one the remote sensors are pinged every few minutes for info Derek

I visited Fylingdales some years back and it was frustrating trying to unlock the car even in the visitors car park some way from the actual site, then again, only to be expected I suppose with the kit in there. We sussed the pattern to the pulses so there was a collective "blip" from all concerned :)