Mark1971
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- Mercedes C160 Sports Coupe
Hi,
This is my 1st posting here and i'm really hoping someone might be able to help me as my problem is now driving me up the wall...
I have a C160 Sports Coupe 2005 and About a month ago the central locking wouldn't open with the key fob which at first I thought... maybe it's the key fob battery.
After testing the spare key fob and that not working either I thought maybe they might need new batteries and so I replaced them. That made no difference at all. I tested the key fobs using a digital camera and they seemed to be working fine showing the infra red.
I can get into the car using the emergency key and use the central locking with the dashboard buttons and the system locks and unlocks happily.
However what I then noticed was that nearly all radio stations have virtually no reception on the radio as well...apart from a couple which are very strong signals..ie..radio 2 and the local radio station that I work for (those 2 are ok to recieve as far as reception is concerned)...otherwise no other stations can be heard clearly at all.
I can't help thinking that there's link here somewhere between the 2 issues.
Could it be that the signal is not being recieved by the car because the key fob for the central locking is also part of the the radio antenna...??? ...also is it something I might be able to do myself
If so how can sort this as Mercedes want £120 just to look at it which I just don't have...
Please help...I'm going nuts with it now...
Regards,
Mark Dover
ps...never used a forum before...not sure if i've this correctly...apologies if I haven't
This is my 1st posting here and i'm really hoping someone might be able to help me as my problem is now driving me up the wall...
I have a C160 Sports Coupe 2005 and About a month ago the central locking wouldn't open with the key fob which at first I thought... maybe it's the key fob battery.
After testing the spare key fob and that not working either I thought maybe they might need new batteries and so I replaced them. That made no difference at all. I tested the key fobs using a digital camera and they seemed to be working fine showing the infra red.
I can get into the car using the emergency key and use the central locking with the dashboard buttons and the system locks and unlocks happily.
However what I then noticed was that nearly all radio stations have virtually no reception on the radio as well...apart from a couple which are very strong signals..ie..radio 2 and the local radio station that I work for (those 2 are ok to recieve as far as reception is concerned)...otherwise no other stations can be heard clearly at all.
I can't help thinking that there's link here somewhere between the 2 issues.
Could it be that the signal is not being recieved by the car because the key fob for the central locking is also part of the the radio antenna...??? ...also is it something I might be able to do myself
If so how can sort this as Mercedes want £120 just to look at it which I just don't have...
Please help...I'm going nuts with it now...
Regards,
Mark Dover
ps...never used a forum before...not sure if i've this correctly...apologies if I haven't
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