why doesn't my remote work in the cold?
 

My remote key-less entry/lock seems to not work under 65 degrees. Anybody else have this problem?

Start with the simple and cheap stuff,
Replace the batteries.

Then check the remote sensors located in the car. Look at the owners manual for trouble shorting and locations.

Sometimes if your remote is near your smartphone it might bug out. Read the owners manual to re-learn the remote.

Hope that helps.

This ^

LOL "cold".

Try pressing the remote on the start button. The start button has a 125KHz LF antenna in it, that’s capable of providing enough power to the remote to overcome a flat battery, as long as it’s very close (like touching).

And yeah, change the battery.

Man I'm in Florida and I don't even call 65 cold. That is still shirtless running weather. Hahaha.

My vote is also on battery.

I put the AC on at 65!

Is it not working at all, or is the distance that it works reduced?



Your avatar must be freezing, then!

Hmm . . . minus 17 degrees F this morning. I'm wearing a short sleeve shirt.


Haven't seen a mosquito in a while . . . :thumbsup:

I may have to resort to the heavier hoodie if I go out at night over the next week or so.

We're talking about cold, right?

Remote still works... alley is so lumpy with ice I need a rally suspension though!

Giving Californians a bad name here, calling 65 cold.

Hey Norcal guys who has that pic from October with all the Cali crew in their parkas and the two crazy northerners in shorts and tee shirts?

That was a nice post - even though I heard that civics have stronger remotes, is that true - :iono:


humfrz

Yeah, I'm trying to be helpful this year.
I been so bad last year.

Lol, maybe I should start my own thread about my "dislike" of front tow straps.
Hopefully this time I won't get people's_______ hurt and get banned for it. :bonk::popcorn::slap:

On the car if you still have the lame stock panasonic battery, get yourself a nice AGM battery like a duralast platinum.

On the remotes replace the battery and try it then. I believe its a CR-2016

I don't understand the Panasonic hatred. My original is still working perfectly. I hope to find an exact replacement when it finally lets go.


May have to overnight from Japan.

Mine is just starting to slow down. Just going to replace it with a middle of the road off brand (Canadian Tire) one.

Mine has just been weak. if I don't drive the car for a week it barely cranks, and trunk light on for 8 hours and no cranks. Seems like some have great luck and others not so much. But hey, it has made it 4 years.

I probably won't go through the trouble but I've been a Panasonic fanboi since the mid '80s when I started appreciating their documentation and design philosophy. At least back then it spanned all of their amazingly diverse product lines.

Your car is ruined anyhow. You should replace the starter motor too. All that extra inertia is tough on the whole system.

I had a Panasonic 10 Speed as a teen. I could fly down hwy 9 on that thing.

I had a Takara. It was awesome. JDM Panasonic is way cooler.

All those bolt on parts.

SMH

OK, and you didn't have to wear a helmet, and you crashed along side of the road, and hit a tree with your head, - nah, no reason to tell us "the rest of the story" - we can guess what it is - :sigh:


humfrz

Safety equipment:

Tank top, cutoffs and sneakers.

WOW - did this thread drift - :confused0068:

Back on track.

OP, if your car's fob doesn't seem to work in colder weather, simply place it in your wife/girlfriends bra for a few minutes. Got it?


humfrz

OK, I got the picture - :eyebulge:


humfrz

First response said everything that needed to be said.

I only remember one of us ever crashing. It was a guy named Kirin. He went straight into the wall at the bridge at Saratoga springs. Didn't get hurt much, but his Motobecane was twisted.

Now that we are off onto bicycle accidents, the only one I remember was dropping the front wheel of my 10 speed into the trolley track lip on the OSU campus.

I'd tell the story, but I have a feeling ol @Tcoat would call me on telling it twice - or just for further corrupting this thread - :bonk:


humfrz

F it, tell it again.

OK, since you insist.

It was a warm, windy, spring day, on The Ohio State University campus.

I had a 10 speed bike that I rode from my apartment off campus, to the campus for classes, to the OSU research station, where I worked, back to campus for more classes, back to my apartment. It was about a 60 mile circuit each day during the summer quarter.

Of course, I was a bullet proof, speedster on my bike, in my young 20's. One fine day I was cranking down a main street on campus, looking at all the girls with their short, wrap around skirts, flapping the breeze, when I rode into this major intersection.

Well, THAT street was the last of the streets on campus that still had the old trolley tracks. Guess what? I found out that the front wheel of my 10 speed bike fit perfectly into the lip of the old trolley tracks. Yep, just like you rode it into a vice.

I went down hard. My books and papers went one way in the busy intersection, my bike just stayed right there and I went the other way. Cars screeched to a halt, one ran over my bike and another damn near ran over me.

I picked myself up, wiped off the blood from my skinned up body with my T shirt, chained what was left of my bike to a tree and went into the chemistry class, where a couple of nice pre-med students bandaged me up with toilet paper.


THE END


humfrz

Humfrz on his bike.