Took the car to the dealer and the service guy got in and deftly flicked the ignition on and off a few times and may have slipped a coupla other moves in there and everything was magically fixed. Said he "reset it" and sent me on my merry way in minutes without charging me a cent. Thanks to the service dept at Tommie Vaughn Ford in Houston for its good service.
Coupla nights ago, I accidentally pressed the panic button on the factory
> remote. In the ensuing panic to turn the horn off before it awakened all > my
> neighbors, I must've done something to screw things up. I can start and
> drive the car ok but the remore no longer works and a red 'theft' light
> flashes every few seconds on the instrument panel.
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> Any ideas how to turn off this light and get the remote working again?
> Thanks in advance.
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