A couple days ago I went to get into my T and didn't have my fob to unlock the door (little plastic loop to connect to the key ring broke). No biggie, I figured I'd just unlock it with the key. Well, when I did that it started beeping short quick horn beeps. Assuming this was a warning the alarm was about to go off I quickly put the key in the ignition and turned it to on, they way to shut off an alarm with the key on other cars I've owned. Nope - this set the alarm off. Key in the door lock/unlock, the way to shut off the alarm in my '81 Corvette - nope, still going off. I went into my house and start looking for the fob, found the spare, and turned off the alarm. T will not start, flashing red security light in the dash. We take my wife's car where we were going. Couple hours later we get home, I find the fob I had been using with the broken loop, unlock the T and it starts fine. Lock it with that, unlock with the other fob - it's fine. Now, if I unlock it with they key it starts beeping and hitting the unlock on the fob stops it and I'm good.
Can someone explain why this happens and/or how it's supposed to work? Imagine if this had happened out in the middle of nowhere on a camping/wheeling trip and I had really lost the fob, not left it in the house somewhere and didn't have a spare. Or even just had it fall off in some store while shopping. Even a dead battery in the fob...
Can someone explain why this happens and/or how it's supposed to work? Imagine if this had happened out in the middle of nowhere on a camping/wheeling trip and I had really lost the fob, not left it in the house somewhere and didn't have a spare. Or even just had it fall off in some store while shopping. Even a dead battery in the fob...