Key Fob Malfunctions in Major Way - 2015 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk Long-Term Road Test

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• yellowbal Member Posts: 234

  September 2015

  Is that a quick disconnect for negative terminal?

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• kirkhilles1 Member Posts: 863

  September 2015

  Well, it's a Jeep, so what did you expect?

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• misterfusion Member Posts: 471

  September 2015

  Wait, so there isn't a central lock button somewhere in the interior, like there is in every other FCA vehicle I've ever owned/driven/heard of? Everyone literally had to lock their own individual doors just because the fob wasn't working? That seems...odd.

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• allthingshonda Member Posts: 878

  September 2015

  Yea, isn't there a door lock switch on the door that controls all the door locks? Or did the power locking functions break completely and it wouldn't work from the fob or the door switch?

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• okseriously Member Posts: 8

  September 2015

  kirkhilles1 said:

  Well, it's a Jeep, so what did you expect?

  Even worse, it's a Fiat.
  
  

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• daryleason Member Posts: 501

  October 2015

  This reminds me about the post earlier talking about Ford's Sync, how no one was complaining about it. With Chrysler, you have a brand new vehicle. Not just a Year-Model new, but New-New. Granted, it's based off a Fiat Panda, which has been out for awhile. But its just so par for the course that something on a Chrysler product won't work that no one, including the Edmunds staff, is going "It's outrageous that a new car already is malfunctioning." Chrysler doesn't have to worry about improving build quality, because they've managed to wait out the consumers to the point of "Oh, it'll start and go in gear, so everything is fine" (I'm looking at you, Ram Eco-Diesel).

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• iamthestig Member Posts: 85

  October 2015

  allthingshonda said:

  Yea, isn't there a door lock switch on the door that controls all the door locks? Or did the power locking functions break completely and it wouldn't work from the fob or the door switch?

  It likely has a "Lock Out" prevention, meaning that it won't allow you to centrally lock all of the doors while the driver's door is open. This keeps you from being able to lock your keys in the car.
  
  

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• gslippy Member Posts: 514

  October 2015

  The fault could be in the Body Control Module, assuming it has one. This sort of thing occurred in my 98 Grand Caravan. It was expen$ive to fix out of warranty.
  
  Now we know where the Edmunds Dodge Dart went - its soul now resides in the Renegade!

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