280mistral
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Trying to program remote key fobs for a 2003 Explorer. I have two brand new fobs with batteries that measure over 3 volts and one original fob which I have just replaced the battery. I recently acquired the car and am down in New Zealand so this is an Australian Explorer. I don't know much of the history of the car.The previous owner sent me the remote after I purchased it and so I've never seen it work. I can cycle the ignition 8 times and get the locks to cycle but when I push any button on the remotes, nothing. The car has the perimeter alarm system and it passes the "turn the key on and it lights the indicator stays on for 3 seconds test". It doesn't seem to matter if the auto lock is enabled or disabled when running the fob programing routine. Vin# is 1FMDU73E62ZC80734. The only other thing that might be suspicious is that someone has replaced the Ford radio with some stupid JVC piece with a remote controller. I tried the programing routine with the JVC off and I even tried to program the JVC controller as a fob just to see if it was interfering but still nothing. I pulled the fuse on the JVC and waited 30 seconds and then tried to program the fobs but still nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John Meredith
