Help With My Factory Fitted Alarm On My E36

[Bernie]

I need a little advice on my alarm here goes my alarm works fine but the range on my fob is weird I can walk away from car and arm the alarm but to disarm it I have to touch a window with fob to disarm it I was wondering if you could expand the range to use fob somehow thanks.

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

Probably a dodgy button in the fob, or tired battery... The Lock and Unlock are of slight different freq's.

[Snypa-D]

try replacing the battery in it,mine was the same until I replaced it :)

[Bernie]

I've already replaced the battery with a new one do it can't be that any other ideas lol

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

Did you "lick" the Battery for a response at your tongue? Shelf-life can factor in all small batteries... Sorry, just had experience of this !

If all is ok with "New" battery, then it must be the fob as your system is accepting the closure fine...

[Bernie]

I have another fob there only thing is when I put a battery in it does nothing lol

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

The other fob needs to be proggied to car using the "additional key" method.

[Bernie]

I think it's propa broke the red led on it doesn't light up when I press the button so I think that's out of the window lol