From Tim Parker-Garner.
I HAVE been following the recent stories relating to key fob woes with interest as my wife and I parked in the car park at Grosnez, locked the car as normal and went off for a walk with our puppy. When we returned the fob would not unlock the car.
We used the key and naturally set off the alarms, but still the fob would not quell the alarm. Battery must be weak, we thought, and decided to call a friend and ask her to bring the spare key to us. As our mobile phones were sitting beside each other in our kitchen at home, I set out to beg a phone to put out our distress call. A kindly gent in a van obliged and after some minutes we discovered that there was no phone signal where we were.
Just then the winkers on our car flashed and the alarm stopped. On going back to the car my wife had managed to get the fob to work, and she was of the opinion that the battery had got cold! Needless to say we got home.
Since then we have had new batteries put into the fob and all has been well. Now in a different part of the Island, on the top of Sand Street car park, in fact, my Range Rover refused to work on the key fob. The vehicle’s internal computer refused to accept any signal to let me start the engine. The problem there relates to all the aerials atop the car park.
I spent just over three hours stuck there and it was only after we had pushed the vehicle away from the aerials and thick cables did the No 1 Recovery guys get the vehicle going.
I reported this problem to ex-Deputy Guy de Faye who was at that time responsible for car parks, among other things, and he was not aware of this problem. I did suggest that some sort of signage be put up there warning people. However, I have not dared venture there since so do not know if that has happened.
2 Boulevard Villas,
Route de St Aubin,
St Helier.
