ive got a peugeot 306 .....

[gina32]

and it locks and opens via the key fob button, all except recently when i go to my friends house, where it wont open except for manually, sometimes it will lock via the key fob but wont ever open via the keyfob, its not the battery because i had it changed in both keys. it used to be ok but the past few weeks its started doing it, and only at my friends, any ideas why? thanks

[Count-A-Strong]

Does she live near a military base?

[jd_1984]

Weird - would say change the battery in the fob, but if only occuring at your friends house, I am stumped!

[gina32]

no not near a military base, its very strange because ive been going to the house for over a year and its always been ok, just started playing up the past couple of months

[AlBags]

Wireless PC network .. or interference from another source like that maybe?

[gina32]

albags what do you mean?

[f86sabrejet]

http://www.ehow.com/l...-car-key-remotes.html

[dotty.]

I have had the same car for 4 years and every so often mine does that and then it doesn't, and then it does, then it doesn;t again, mainly it does it when it is parked behind my house .

[dotty.]

by 'I have had the same car for 4 years' I mean a 306, though i have had it for 4 years, and so when I say 'I have had the same car for 4 years' that is a true statement in itself, but I have also had the same car as you for 4 years, when i say the same car as you i don't mean we share a car, i mean my own 306, a red one.

[rnchugg]

My best mate has got a range rover. on a trip in 2009 to Cribbs causeway in bristol he parked in an NCP car park. On return the central locking and immobiliser would not deactivate. after an expensive investigation nothing could be found wrong with the car! once it was "towed" out everything was fine. After a few months of web surfing and a chance conversation with an auto electrician it turned out that the NCP's security remote cameras operated on the same signal as his remote central locking. Basically it jammed his fob up. Apparently some places around the uk have similar reactions with different cars because of recently installed equipment. I would say that your freind must have had a system installed near to them which is also interferring with your remote central locking!

[ChuckFickens]

Key fobs work in the 433mhz range of frequencies and there are loads of other things that use that frequency because it's one of the unlicensed, free for all frequencies (so it's a little crowded!). off the top off my head I can think of wireless house alarms, wireless video senders, wireless microphones, some baby monitors, amateur radio hams, home wireless weather stations and there are probably hundreds of other things all of which could be causing interference. (not wireless networks though, they are 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz)

If it's only been doing it a few weeks two things spring to mind, 1) did the friends get anything at all that works using wireless for Christmas? or 2) they have something like a wireless house alarm and the battery is getting low in one of the senders.

[gina32]

chuck, it started before christmas and no they didnt have anything as you desribed, but a neighbour has recently had a baby and maybe it the baby monitor causing it, thanks all for your replies, it worked ok yesterday several times, i probably wont find out.

[gina32]

just very strange

[AlBags]

Well that saved some typing!
It will be neighbouring interference for sure.