Keyless entry - Laguna

Don't leave the lights on? Replace the buggered battery &/or alternator.

Looking at my Focus manual, which includes details for keyless entry/starting (not on my model!) - it seems to suggest that there it still retains the ability to use a key, and that the keyless entry thingy includes bits you can use to assemble the key together, or something.

Yep, Nissan and others do something similar.

The OP is inquiring about a French car however...

Chris

Chris Whelan (Chris Whelan ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

A Renault. Which is damn near the same thing as a Nissan. Or vice-versa.

Depends on the age of the Laguna. They were being sold about five years before the Nissan/Renault tie in.

Oh, and you would need to define "damn near". What Nissan would be the engineering equivalent of the Laguna?

I do know that current Micras have a "secret" means of entry if the fob battery fails, and that certain Renaults don't.

Chris

They used to have a key built into the card that slid out one end. There's then a plastic cover on the nearside front door handle that you need to pop off, under which there is a standard door lock to put the key in.

Chris Whelan (Chris Whelan ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Not with keyless entry.

Primula.

IIRC, there's a little hidden key blade in the fob thing on a Laguna. Dunno where the keyhole is though.

My mate's mum had a Laguna, 2002 or thereabouts.

The top of the key card comes off and there is some sort of rudimentary key inside.

I dunno where the key goes either. I suspect the information'd be in the manual.

Yes tell him to drive the car more frequently to keep the rest of it running and not just re-charge the battery.

On a seroius note: as was metioned further on down the thread there is an emergency key in the keyfob. Just pull off the slightly different coloured part that looks a bit fatter than the rest of the card. The lock is in the passenger side door handle, look underneath it (on the part that doesn't move) and you will see a small rectangular keyhole that you use the emergency key to remove and the lock is revealed. I think you just use they emergency key to pull up and it pops off but I have never tried on mine, so keep an eye out for wherever it pops off too.

-- Chris

In message , Douglas Payne writes

Which would be bugger all use if the manual was in the glove compartment ;-)

Why not use a solar charger to keep the battery topped up?

Laguna 2000 on the key is indeed in the heel of the keycard, just pull out the black piece. The lock is on the front passenger side, there is a cover alongside the door handle which clips on and off. The key works the door lock, and the keycard will work the ignition with dead batteries.

HTH

Rich.