Key fob range.

[TheZombieNinja3]

So I have started to notice the range on my key fob getting worse and worse over the last week. I replaced the batteries in it and still no change. Yesterday the range was better but today the range is garbage. I was wondering where the sensor that picks up the key fob is located? I have also tried using my spare fob and it is the same exact range problem. Could the sensor be going bad? any ideas?

 

[Hedsic]

I pretty much have to already be inside my Jeep to get both if mine to work.


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[TheZombieNinja3]

Yesterday I could stand 50 feet away with ease, but today I had to be 4 feet away.

 

[centermass556]

It's local area proximity jamming...

No in all actuality I bet it is an issue with the Wireless Control Module. And, If i remember correctly it is in the steerring column.

 

[profdlp]

Hold the fob next to your head when you push the button.

Laugh now, but it works! :hat:

[YT]LYeXuM_xL1M[/YT]

 

[tjkj2002]

Yesterday I could stand 50 feet away with ease, but today I had to be 4 feet away.

It can depend on a lot of different variables that can change day to day.


For me the OE remotes work 100'+ where I park at my apartment building,at work I have to be within 5' due to about 30 automatic doors in a 1000' radius.

 

[KodiakKJ]

I've noticed with mine, I can be 60ft away with no problems. When I get off work though, its about half that. I work afternoons at a gas station and get off between 8 pm and 10 pm. Somehow, mine works better with more vehicles around.


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[TheZombieNinja3]

I've had the same environment with the jeep, and had it do the same thing. It stays parked next to a scion xa that does not have automatic doors, one day i can be in the doorway to the house and it works, the next day I have to be 5 feet away.The only difference the last 2 days was it rained. But half the day I had to be close and half the day I didn't.

 

[TheZombieNinja3]

Hold the fob next to your head when you push the button.

Laugh now, but it works! :hat:

[YT]LYeXuM_xL1M[/YT]

I watched the video, next time I am in a parking lot, It will be time to make my girlfriend think I'm insane.

 

[KodiakKJ]

I think I will try that on my next day off.


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[KYLiberty]

I watched the video, next time I am in a parking lot, It will be time to make my girlfriend think I'm insane.

Actually works. Been using that trick for 20 years.

 

[profdlp]

Actually works. Been using that trick for 20 years.

I couldn't find the video where I first learned about this. It was some British guy who is a professor at a University over there. I figured it was a gag, I mean, the old guys from Monty Python have to have something to do, right?

Then I tried it, over and over again just to be sure. Of course, all my neighbors think I've lost it now that they've seen me wandering around the parking lot with my keys up to my noggin' making the lights flash on the Jeep. :rotflmao:

 

[TheZombieNinja3]

I couldn't find the video where I first learned about this. It was some British guy who is a professor at a University over there. I figured it was a gag, I mean, the old guys from Monty Python have to have something to do, right?

Then I tried it, over and over again just to be sure. Of course, all my neighbors think I've lost it now that they've seen me wandering around the parking lot with my keys up to my noggin' making the lights flash on the Jeep. :rotflmao:

We should send it to myth busters and find out why this works. And I could totally see a Monty Python gag like this.:happy175:

 

[Jo6pak]

I watched the video, next time I am in a parking lot, It will be time to make my girlfriend think I'm insane.

Are you sure you need a key fob for that?:buttkick:

 

[TheZombieNinja3]

Are you sure you need a key fob for that?:buttkick:

I set myself up for that one. :Stupid Me: