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drummerboy,
Not quite the same situation as you but this MAY help if you get one key working.
Recently for my S-Type the remote key just stopped working, although the light button operated the headlamps. I operated the locks with the key in the door and this means that when unlocking the door you need to get the key into the ignition switch promptly so as to deactivate the alarm.
Anyway, I booked the car into my local JMD to have both the keys and the alarm all sorted. The Service Manager took me out to the car, used the remote that worked a few times, then started to use the dead remote at the same time as the live key and in maybe 10 seconds both were working! Apparently, a working key will in effect reboot the supposedly dead key. This is not in the handbook. So if you can get one key working you should be able to get both working as long as the remote batteries are OK. By the way, the Service Manager said he's never seen a remote with simply a dead battery: a non operating remote is never a battery problem and a replacement is around £100.
Hope this helps.
R.
Not quite the same situation as you but this MAY help if you get one key working.
Recently for my S-Type the remote key just stopped working, although the light button operated the headlamps. I operated the locks with the key in the door and this means that when unlocking the door you need to get the key into the ignition switch promptly so as to deactivate the alarm.
Anyway, I booked the car into my local JMD to have both the keys and the alarm all sorted. The Service Manager took me out to the car, used the remote that worked a few times, then started to use the dead remote at the same time as the live key and in maybe 10 seconds both were working! Apparently, a working key will in effect reboot the supposedly dead key. This is not in the handbook. So if you can get one key working you should be able to get both working as long as the remote batteries are OK. By the way, the Service Manager said he's never seen a remote with simply a dead battery: a non operating remote is never a battery problem and a replacement is around £100.
Hope this helps.
R.
Now you've done everything, does the button that activates the headlights work? If so, you don't have a battery problem. In that case I think your remotes are knackered. I suggest you get one replaced...£100?..and then see if it will reboot the other as per my above post. If not, it looks like £200 for two new keys, sorry to say!
Maybe somehow the remotes have lost the signal connection to the alarm/immobiliser and could be reprogrammed. Search this Jaguar thread for how to do this (I seem to reacll there's a post how to do this), otherwise ask a JMD to do this.
If I was in your situation I'd be more than a bit frustrated!
R.
Maybe somehow the remotes have lost the signal connection to the alarm/immobiliser and could be reprogrammed. Search this Jaguar thread for how to do this (I seem to reacll there's a post how to do this), otherwise ask a JMD to do this.
If I was in your situation I'd be more than a bit frustrated!
R.
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