So we have come into a perplexing problem - not sure if it's FOB related, but our experience lately suggests it's not us. And for the record, we've booked a Service Appointment.
So occasionally we've come out to our X and one of the FWDs has been wide open...sometimes all night. It happened relatively infrequently so we figured it was us accidentally pressing it. But recently it begun to happen far more frequently. We had already switched the fob from single click to triple-click because I was always leaning on the fob when reaching into the back and closing the hatch on my head. This was quite obvious when I was at fault, these latest issues not so much.
My wife went grocery shopping and came back to the car and one of the FWDs is wide open in the parking lot, who knows for how long. Later, we were at the check-in to the campsite (only yesterday) and the right FWD was opening and closing by itself. We had both the FOBs in the car, but they were both in the cup-holder. It would open, then stop, then close, then open again, my wife got after my 5-y.o. who exclaimed it was't her. I was out grabbing firewood and could see she wasn't pressing anything. Slightly embarrassing when your car is mis-behaving in front of company.
And the icing on the cake: last night one of the kids awoke and the trailer was glowing red; the taillights and headlights were on blasting through the campground at 1:30AM and the FWD wide open, yet again. Both sets of keys were up at the back of the trailer, and they don't function from there. We closed it, put the keys back. We awoke a few hours later, and there it was again wide open. This happened two more times. I kept the key above me inside (where the FOB does reach) so I could close it again without having to get out of bed. It didn't happen again.
We left the campground to get cellular reception (because there is none at the campground) to schedule a service appointment, because at this point it's becoming an issue. As we were stopped at a light, the door tried to open again but the car gave us the error beeps because the doors were locked. Interestingly at night, the car did the whole passive entry unlock dual-honk, unfold mirrors, open the door, despite the fact the FOB was nowhere near.
When the car is in it's strange door-opening mood, the FOB actually doesn't function, neither of them. When I do any of the normal dual-presses, nothing happens. When I triple-click on the roof (the close-all), it opens and closes only the door that had opened by itself. The fact that both FOBs are the same likely indicates it's not a problem with a single FOB. The other strange thing is that it was the passenger FWD that had opened at the gate house, and the rest of the time it had been the driver FWD. Add to this the phantom "object detected" refusal to open and refusal to manually override issues we've had 3-4 times now, we're losing our minds a bit here.
So question: will turning off passive entry help in the interim? It seems the car doesn't even need the FOB anyways(to open that door by itself), and if the FOB/car is malfunctioning could that lock us out?(I've only ever used passive entry, so am unfamiliar with how the car works without it... and without cellular reception slightly worried.)
So occasionally we've come out to our X and one of the FWDs has been wide open...sometimes all night. It happened relatively infrequently so we figured it was us accidentally pressing it. But recently it begun to happen far more frequently. We had already switched the fob from single click to triple-click because I was always leaning on the fob when reaching into the back and closing the hatch on my head. This was quite obvious when I was at fault, these latest issues not so much.
My wife went grocery shopping and came back to the car and one of the FWDs is wide open in the parking lot, who knows for how long. Later, we were at the check-in to the campsite (only yesterday) and the right FWD was opening and closing by itself. We had both the FOBs in the car, but they were both in the cup-holder. It would open, then stop, then close, then open again, my wife got after my 5-y.o. who exclaimed it was't her. I was out grabbing firewood and could see she wasn't pressing anything. Slightly embarrassing when your car is mis-behaving in front of company.
And the icing on the cake: last night one of the kids awoke and the trailer was glowing red; the taillights and headlights were on blasting through the campground at 1:30AM and the FWD wide open, yet again. Both sets of keys were up at the back of the trailer, and they don't function from there. We closed it, put the keys back. We awoke a few hours later, and there it was again wide open. This happened two more times. I kept the key above me inside (where the FOB does reach) so I could close it again without having to get out of bed. It didn't happen again.
We left the campground to get cellular reception (because there is none at the campground) to schedule a service appointment, because at this point it's becoming an issue. As we were stopped at a light, the door tried to open again but the car gave us the error beeps because the doors were locked. Interestingly at night, the car did the whole passive entry unlock dual-honk, unfold mirrors, open the door, despite the fact the FOB was nowhere near.
When the car is in it's strange door-opening mood, the FOB actually doesn't function, neither of them. When I do any of the normal dual-presses, nothing happens. When I triple-click on the roof (the close-all), it opens and closes only the door that had opened by itself. The fact that both FOBs are the same likely indicates it's not a problem with a single FOB. The other strange thing is that it was the passenger FWD that had opened at the gate house, and the rest of the time it had been the driver FWD. Add to this the phantom "object detected" refusal to open and refusal to manually override issues we've had 3-4 times now, we're losing our minds a bit here.
So question: will turning off passive entry help in the interim? It seems the car doesn't even need the FOB anyways(to open that door by itself), and if the FOB/car is malfunctioning could that lock us out?(I've only ever used passive entry, so am unfamiliar with how the car works without it... and without cellular reception slightly worried.)
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