Renault Kangoo Van

Renault Kangoo Van

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1ManRiot

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14 posts

183 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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I've just acquired a 2001 Renault Kangoo van.

The ignition barrel was replaced in its former life as a key snapped of. The button on the remote doesn't work. The door locks open with a different key, but this is bent and you have to do it at a certain angle to lock and unlock it.

I want to replace all the locks and ideally have it working from the remote, central locking (the central locking button in the van itself works).

Where do I start, and would it be easier paying someone else to do it?

I tried to join the Renault forums but despite a multitude of different combinations of usernames and email addresses it tells me I'm a spammer.

1ManRiot

Original Poster:

14 posts

183 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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Wonderful, I think I've managed to immobilise it now and I can't undo it. Note to self: always avoided French crap for a reason...

smileymikey

1,446 posts

233 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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If you can.... lock and unlock it a couple of times, using the key itself....The immobilizer times out on these, vehicles. It caught me out a few times years ago when we had ours and it wouldnt start, after being left unlocked for ten minutes or so

1ManRiot

Original Poster:

14 posts

183 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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Thanks for reply. Do you mean lock and unlock with the central locking remote fob? If so, this doesn't work and didn't work to begin with, and the doors are unlocked manually with a different key.

smileymikey

1,446 posts

233 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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No manually lock and unlock the door lock psychically with the key.

1ManRiot

Original Poster:

14 posts

183 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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Well that was eventful!

Tried what you said, then put the key in the ignition, turned it to II and I heard a relay click and the lights on the dash came on for an absolute blip of a second, blink and you'd miss, it then nothing.

Turned the key back and forth pressing and holding the button no joy.

In frustration I clicked the button several times outside the ignition and all of a sudden the van beeped and the fob then worked to lock and unlock all the doors (except drivers). This works fine now, beeps and side lights flash to lock and unlock. Alarm worked as well as I locked it with fob, then unlocked it without fob and the alarm went off till I pressed the fob.

Immobiliser still having none of it though....



Edited by 1ManRiot on Saturday 18th January 16:59

1ManRiot

Original Poster:

14 posts

183 months

Saturday 18th January 2014
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Went for another go, no problems went straight away. I suspect there is a loose relay/fuse/connection somewhere, I'll have to have a look at some point.