Beep beep

Hey Folks - I mentioned this in the past but have a little more bandwidth at the moment to look at this issue...

I notice that when pressing the button on the drivers door handle to lock the car I often get the "beep beep" noise and the car won't lock. If I move around ever so slightly in the vicinity of the same door it will eventually lock (having drawn attention to myself and my lump of British steel!). If I stand on the other side of the car (passenger side) the button works reliably; if I use the lock on the remote control the car also locks reliably.

My conclusion here is that the battery in the remote is good, I've changed it a few times and still have the issue, so I'm wondering if there's some sort of sensor in each of the doors and perhaps the one in the drivers door has gone bad? Could it be anything else, does anyone know what parts I should be looking at?

Thanks and beep beep! Longtrail

I think there's an antenna someplace in the rear bumper cover area that detects if the fob is in close enough proximity to unlock. The fob sometimes isn't detected, or may be blocked. Happens to me regularly if my key is buried in my gear.

Thanks, not sure if this explains the difference between driver and passenger side, off-course, my stats for the driver side are far more abundant! I do wonder about wallet in the same pocket and things like that but this does seem positional.

I'm not an expert at all, there could be more than one as well.

I think there is more than one sensor but need to do some research, I was hoping somebody might know before I go down the rabbit hole... As always I'll share findings, work etc.

Here's something:

The other thing to consider is your phone. I get this behavior all the time if my phone is in the same pocket as my key.

Here is the behavior with our LR4. If the fob is anywhere inside the vehicle the door buttons will not lock the doors and the "beep beep". If the fob is outside of the vehicle all of our door buttons work as expected to lock the vehicle.

Seems to me it is a feature to prevent you from leaving the fob inside and thinking that you've secured it when really anyone could walk up and simply press the button or open the door.

I can't make sense of the driver vs passenger door though. Maybe your battery is too strong (haha, go figure) and the sensor is in the steering column?

jlglr4 said:

The other thing to consider is your phone. I get this behavior all the time if my phone is in the same pocket as my key.

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Second this - very dependably so...

The phone blocking makes sense but the driver sides doesn't. I need to look at where the sensor is located in the vehicle and see if that's somehow impacting the behavior. Not sure yet what parts to be looking at...

I thinking opening behavior is OK though, what's with that!