Central locking or alarm issue?

[HUEANDCRY71]

Recently recharged the battery on my car after a month sitting in the garage and now the key fob will not activate the central locking.

I have tried both key fobs but still no joy, the lights on the key fobs work fine.

The central locking will work if i put the key in the door and close them manually.

The red LED in my centre console is flashing continuously when i am driving the car, not noticed it doing ths previously.

Any ideas what is wrong and what i need to do to fix please?

[dapinky]

As a guess, I'd say that the alarm has lost its settings due to flat batteriy???????

Depending on make/model of alarm, it can happen if the fob battery loses power, or the car battery is flat for an excessive period of time,

With my Vectra, it's just a case of putting the key in the ignition, switching it so the dash lights are on, then pushing alarm button to re-sync them.

On the Laserline on the red elan it is a little more complex, but doable.
On the Clifford on the blue car - havent a clue - it's never happened.

Try looking in alarm handbook, or on the website.......

....whatever the result, please bear in mind that this is a publically viewable forum, and anything specific to your car, or elans in particular is possibly not best put into general view

[RayD]

As Dave says … and … the red light shouldn’t be flashing - it’s telling you the alarm has been activated – as it always does when you reconnect the battery - under normal circumstances it would be a simple matter of pressing the unlock button on the key fob to reset it but you need to re-program yours first.

Ray

[HUEANDCRY71]

As a guess, I'd say that the alarm has lost its settings due to flat batteriy???????

Depending on make/model of alarm, it can happen if the fob battery loses power, or the car battery is flat for an excessive period of time,

With my Vectra, it's just a case of putting the key in the ignition, switching it so the dash lights are on, then pushing alarm button to re-sync them.

On the Laserline on the red elan it is a little more complex, but doable.
On the Clifford on the blue car - havent a clue - it's never happened.

Try looking in alarm handbook, or on the website.......

....whatever the result, please bear in mind that this is a publically viewable forum, and anything specific to your car, or elans in particular is possibly not best put into general view

im not sure what the make and model of the alarm is to be honest, i do know that my car is a 91 SE Turbo and the alarm appears to be afactory fitted one. The alarm handbook doesnt describe resetting and isnt much help,i cant find anything elsewhere either.

Thanks for your response.

[HUEANDCRY71]

As Dave says … and … the red light shouldn’t be flashing - it’s telling you the alarm has been activated – as it always does when you reconnect the battery - under normal circumstances it would be a simple matter of pressing the unlock button on the key fob to reset it but you need to re-program yours first.

Ray

how do i reprogramme it?

Just tried following the response below but that didnt work.

Cheers.