Emmit
LIFE MEMBER
Greetings All,
Apologies at the outset for the length of this post
I struggled to decide where to put this. It could go in tips but it's really a low level warning.
Last week I went to 'my' garage to have him wiggle my wastegate, Ooh!! er!!! missus.
Got there OK but on trying to get the 'van to start when I was there, would it heck.
Scratching head I had a look and saw that on the instrument panel there was a lit symbol indicating the ignition was locked, therefore the 'van wasn't recognizing the key and was assuming I was a person with theft on my mind.
More head scratching and I realised that in my pocket, I had the house keys to which was attached the household car key. Now, our car is a 12 yr old Audi so it's hardly in the bracket, all techie, singing and dancing but, just in case, I got out of 'van and placed the bunch of house keys 10 yds away. Went back to 'van and it started first time (after locking and unlocking it.) The same thing happened when I was leaving the garage. I removed the car key from the 'van and everything started again.
The only thing I can assume is that the two keys, Audi and Fiat were having a fight as to who should be in charge and the Fiat took his ball home and wouldn't play.
Having said all this, we've had both keys close together on loads of occasions but I would hate for something so simple to cause probs for the members on here who may be miles from home.
Apologies at the outset for the length of this post
I struggled to decide where to put this. It could go in tips but it's really a low level warning.
Last week I went to 'my' garage to have him wiggle my wastegate, Ooh!! er!!! missus.
Got there OK but on trying to get the 'van to start when I was there, would it heck.
Scratching head I had a look and saw that on the instrument panel there was a lit symbol indicating the ignition was locked, therefore the 'van wasn't recognizing the key and was assuming I was a person with theft on my mind.
More head scratching and I realised that in my pocket, I had the house keys to which was attached the household car key. Now, our car is a 12 yr old Audi so it's hardly in the bracket, all techie, singing and dancing but, just in case, I got out of 'van and placed the bunch of house keys 10 yds away. Went back to 'van and it started first time (after locking and unlocking it.) The same thing happened when I was leaving the garage. I removed the car key from the 'van and everything started again.
The only thing I can assume is that the two keys, Audi and Fiat were having a fight as to who should be in charge and the Fiat took his ball home and wouldn't play.
Having said all this, we've had both keys close together on loads of occasions but I would hate for something so simple to cause probs for the members on here who may be miles from home.