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(Message started by: tipierre on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 7:11pm)

Title: HELP I can't open it
Post by tipierre on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 7:11pm

Hello,

Am I facing a major problem ???
My car is parked and I can't open it :-[
I tried the key and the remote with new batteries, it doesn't open.
There are some telltale switch on on the dashboard, the alarm led is still blinking and switch of when I press the remote control button.

Please help at least getting in.

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by barrie on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 7:45pm

Have you tried the key in the boot or other door, or try a spare key

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by tipierre on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 7:55pm

Yes of course I have tried all doors and the boot as well.
I am getting desperate...I had to get a lift home
I am now going to try my spare key but I doubt it will work as they're supposed to be the same...

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by barrie on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 8:23pm

I had a problem similar to that but my spare key worked, I had a lot of other keys on the key ring and I don't think it helps

here is a similar post to your problem

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Problems;action=display;num=1134769233;start=10#10

Hope it helps

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by tipierre on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 9:03pm

Thanks but I just tried the spare key, it still doesn't work...
By the way I only have 2 keys, I have not been given a red key by the car dealer when I purchased it (is this normal ? ???)
I will try the WD40 trick and will let you know...
thanks anyway

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by barrie on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 9:06pm

No problem, let me know how you go on.

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by djmutters69 on Feb 22^nd, 2006, 11:32pm

No red key :-/ "Ouch"

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by Scorpioen84 on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 12:04am

my 2.0 -95 newer had a "red-key", so maby u dont have the PATS fittet, like mine...
(i think its been to long since ive posted, dont remember everything about my scorp anymore... :P But i think it got to do with the PATSystem, the red key... :-[ hehe....

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by craig on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 7:28am

on 02/22/06 at 23:32:15, djmutters69 wrote:

No red key :-/ "Ouch"

some scorpio's never had a red key in the first place..

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by Snoopy on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 8:21am

email me or contact me via PM and send me your Vin plate number and vehicle details

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by Geoff_W on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 9:42am

You dont have another Ford in the family do you?

I ran into a problem where I was using the wrong set of keys, in fact the old set from my Mk3. You can lock the car with an incorrect Ford key but it will not open again until you use the right one. :-[

Just read the bit about you having to get a lift home, so I guess you had the right keys when you drove there in the first place.

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by tipierre on Feb 23^rd, 2006, 12:51pm

Hi,
I don't have any other keys at home So it can't be the problem. This morning I tried WD40, it wasn't success again.
The breakdown services didn't do it neither and now the car is with Ford.

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by Ultima_Stu on Feb 24^th, 2006, 9:08pm

You've obviously read my fun and games with this sketch!

Not really sure what happens but the red key was our only way in. The system was then reset by a dealer and a new key set fitted (Bonds of Pocklington 01759 303225)

Not much of an answer but you certainly have my sympathy!

Stu

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by tipierre on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 12:18pm

Finally Ford open the car but it costs me 300 quids !!! They change a part which cost £30 but the driver door is more difficult to open now.

Title: Re: HELP I can't open it
Post by bertie on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 7:38pm

you have my sympathy mate, happened to me last year.

left the estate at Newcastle airport whilst on honeymoon...returned to this s#ithole country on a freezing cold windy day having left Alcudias hot sun shine to find the locks wouldn't open with the key and the remote wasn't working...d**n.

so I said to the wife...pick a window...lifted up the beath towel and put out the rear passenger window, stuffed the cases in through the window !!! I crawled in, alarm blarring and let the passenger window down, stuffed the wife in through the window and drove home with the indicators flashing and horn sounding.

2 days later went to Ford and bought new lock set, £70 and fitted them, Ford reprogrammed at a cost of £50 so job sorted. I checked the microfische, I had a relpacement window in the shed so that sorted that.

reading this forum it looks like Scorps sieze their door locks as a common fault so 1 day when the remote doesn't work...bang ...no getting in.

mind, did another Scorp same problem, and drilled the pass lock 8mm to start finishind with a 10mm, and when the drill bit went through lock, click, it triggered centrl locking and car opened. Only took 10 mins or so to drill out with my 18v dewalt cordless, so a thought for someone stuck....