Need help geting car started

thenightrider

Hi my girlfried has the car. This morning when she opened the car the circuit board of the alarm fob fell on the ground she did not see it fall. SO now she is over 50 miles away from me and ive no way to get it to her.

All she has is the keys to the car but no way to start it as the immobiliser went on when she took the keys out of the car.

Is there any way around the immobiliser to get the car going ?

Anan1

I take it the alarm key isn't on her keyring or somewhere in the car?

Mycroft H

The circuit board of the alarm? What circuit board?

Usually on aftermarket alarms the immobliser and the alarm are to seperate systems and not interlinked.


And if its the immobiliser is really gone, your not moving that car............

listermint

Gonna have to call in a lift i reckon.

thenightrider

Anan1 wrote: »

I take it the alarm key isn't on her keyring or somewhere in the car?

Ive got the alarm here the circuit board for the alarm fob came out of the caseing and fell in the garden this morning she only see it was missing when she got to work and went to put the alarm on she locked the car useing the key.

Mar4ix

what car we are talking? Is that factory fitted immobiliser? Or that aftermarket?

listermint

Get her to hold the phone to the passenger side rear lights , you call the phone and press the alarm fob 3 times. makes sure she waves the phone over this area. presto it should pop open.

thenightrider

Mar4ix wrote: »

what car we are talking? Is that factory fitted immobiliser? Or that aftermarket?

Its a 2000 mitsubishi carisma im not sure if it is a factory fit or aftermarket.

Bus, taxi, lift - get the fob bits to her. Easiest way tbh.

thenightrider

RoverJames wrote: »

Bus, taxi, lift - get the fob bits to her. Easiest way tbh.

Ya i kind of had tought id end up haveing to just get the fob bits to her but was just hopeing there was an other way as its a pain in the a$$ geting to her with out a car.

Anan1

thenightrider wrote: »

Ive got the alarm here the circuit board for the alarm fob came out of the caseing and fell in the garden this morning she only see it was missing when she got to work and went to put the alarm on she locked the car useing the key.

Alarms have an override key - it's much smaller than a car key, and can sit undetected on a keyring or buried in a glovebox. If she had that then she could deactivate the alarm at the box under the bonnet - otherwise I think you'll have to get the pcb over to her.

OldmanMondeo

She locked the car with the key? How did she put the alarm on? If she doesn't have the circuit board, how could the alarm and immobiliser turn on?

Anan1

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

She locked the car with the key? How did she put the alarm on? If she doesn't have the circuit board, how could the alarm and immobiliser turn on?

The immobiliser will often engage automatically after a set period when you switch off the engine.

stevenmu

Has she actually tried to start the car since? If she managed to drive from home to work there's a good chance that the immobiliser chip is still in the key (sometimes it's a small black plastic looking circle between the blade and the key handle).

Gophur

She lost the fob, let her find a way back to get it!

Candle10

Hey have a related alarm issue with my hyundai coupe...when i bought it i only got an ignition key...the garage seemingly hav the sound of the alarm diabled but now the car wont stop flashing every time we turn it on...is there any way of diabling it...

andyseadog

listermint wrote: »

Get her to hold the phone to the passenger side rear lights , you call the phone and press the alarm fob 3 times. makes sure she waves the phone over this area. presto it should pop open.

sarcasm detector = written off after that.

Candle10

Anan1 wrote: »

Alarms have an override key - it's much smaller than a car key, and can sit undetected on a keyring or buried in a glovebox. If she had that then she could deactivate the alarm at the box under the bonnet - otherwise I think you'll have to get the pcb over to her.

If you don't have an over-ride key...jus realised i may have thrown mine out

Ardennes1944

andyseadog wrote: »

sarcasm detector = written off after that.

its actually not andy, if you have lost your key and your OH has the spare remote one at home, if you hold the phone near the car and the OH keeps clicking the open button it will open. my dad brought home a sheet before with cool things most people wouldnt know and thought id try it cos i didnt think it would work at all, i walked half way up the field at the back of our house, my dad held the phone at the car and after about 5 clicks, it opened!

Dartz

Sarcastic snark withheld.

No. it doesn't work. It just doesn't. It is beyond the realm of impossibility to transmit an infra-red, or radio signal, through a microphone and speaker. If the key worked ultrasonically.... maybe.... but in all likelyhood the ultrasonic signal would be cut as the call is compressed down to the bare minimum necessary for voice to be clear.

Unless you've got the override OP, you're probably best off just getting a lift over there and getting it going again, rather than facking around with things that'll only make the problem worse.

Ardennes1944

well unless your telling me the key opened the car half a km away through trees and a house?