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Icarus
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Remote fob range and colour of face lift headlight
« on: Apr 8th, 2013, 6:42pm » |
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Just a quick couple of questions,
What sort of range do you fellow owners get from your remote key fobs? I have to hold mine on the glass to get a response! It fitted new batteries and still the same. Do they degrade signal wise over time?
And does anybody know what colour the darker section of the last face lifted Scorpio headlights are? Matt black, gun metal grey or something else? Not seen any in the flesh myself, but will be painting mine as soon as I can 
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Peter
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #1 on: Apr 8th, 2013, 8:18pm » |
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I think some owners have removed the silver on the bit that is black on the facelift lights, I think its black underneath.
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Matt
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #2 on: Apr 8th, 2013, 8:29pm » |
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the lights are just black plastic and as said you can rub the chrome off a prefacelift unit and it will turn black (thing of facelift lights as not chromed)
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Icarus
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #3 on: Apr 8th, 2013, 9:09pm » |
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Ahh, thought I had to paint it, but if the chrome can be removed......
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #4 on: Apr 8th, 2013, 9:30pm » |
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it comes off fairly easy, use something like t cut or similar, just dont use paint stripper or chemicals, the plastic melts 
best if you can take the glass off, which if you feel brave enough to do id recoment using windscreen sealant to rebond them, you csn buy it on ebay for £10 which youll get a little kit of glass prep and primers
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #5 on: Apr 8th, 2013, 10:15pm » |
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on Apr 8th, 2013, 9:30pm, Matt wrote:it comes off fairly easy, use something like t cut or similar, just dont use paint stripper or chemicals, the plastic melts
best if you can take the glass off, which if you feel brave enough to do id recoment using windscreen sealant to rebond them, you csn buy it on ebay for £10 which youll get a little kit of glass prep and primers |
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Why would you? I much prefer the pre-facelift lights front and rear. Opinions are important of course. I need to sleep!
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Matt
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #6 on: Apr 8th, 2013, 11:38pm » |
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facelift all the way lol 
ok the headlights aint that bad but the rear all red cluster is horrible lol same goes for the oringal grills, although they are stronger
bumpers im not fussed about
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #7 on: Apr 10th, 2013, 10:06pm » |
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on Apr 8th, 2013, 6:42pm, Icarus wrote:Just a quick couple of questions,
What sort of range do you fellow owners get from your remote key fobs? I have to hold mine on the glass to get a response! It fitted new batteries and still the same. Do they degrade signal wise over time?
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I normally have to be within 10ft of car. I saw Jeremy C demonstrate on TG that putting the fob to your forehead and pressing the button you could extend the range. Seemed to work for me but I don't make a habit of it
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Re: Remote fob range and colour of face lift headl
« Reply #8 on: Apr 25th, 2013, 3:37pm » |
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The fob's sender is turned on by the button contacts, so if they are high resistance, transmitting power is not good. I normally have to be within about 10 feet as well.
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