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The mighty Galaxy's only fault has been occasionally iffy central locking.
It's starting to really play up (all via plippy fob)
- locks first time, every time.
- now takes multiple times (10-20x) to unlock, having re-locked each time.
- every time I press unlock, when it doesn't work the red battery sign flashes on dash. The same sign flashes every 3seconds. It stops flashing when it is the 'working' unlock
- new car battery a month ago, kicking out great volts either engine running or engine off.
- new fob battery last week.
Thoughts/ how to solve?
Does it with all the keys ?
The fob battery you replaced last week might be a dud?
Try another one?
loose/damp earth on the lock motor?
IMO, if it was the fob battery, the dash wouldn't have a signal to receive, so wouldn't know it was failing to unlock to show the red light...
I only have one plippy key.
It's the third different fob battery I've tried, this one is a posh Duracell one.
It's odd the dashboard light is suggesting it gets signal. I'm more inclined to go looking for something like vincienup is suggesting.
It's a known problem,google it,there's a range of causes.
Did you try recoding the key after changing the battery?
I need to buy a second key and try a recode, just in case.
It still seems like a car responding issue - the flashing light corresponds to signal sent and received, just not acted upon...