Areas To Avoid In Swindon

[Flathead]

Popped to wickes this morning in Swindon as a fence post snapped off last night to get a metpost post repair and noticed the door wouldn't lock on the fob so i locked it manually. Came out and the car wouldn't start as the fob didn't work spent half a hour fiddling with fuses and the like while waiting for my sons to turn up with a solid tow bar and then noticed a bloody big radio mast over the road ! Towed the car half a mile and it was business as usual any other carparks to avoid in Swindon ?

[edmondo]

had the same thing in Tesco's car park in Trowbridge but have had it sporadically in Tesco Petrol station on Ocatol way - happened on a couple of pumps ( down the front ) but not on others ( top end ).

not had it in Wickes before but thanks for the warning

[rae_sti]

think allot depends on what make alarm etc you have .never had trouble in trowbridge with mine .but did try to help a guy with a blobeye once who couldnt work out what was up .silver foil didnt work tho ended up being towed up the road from tesco

[edmondo]

agree Rae - when I was stuck in Trowbridge it was on the previous Scooby that had a standard alarm on

[chrisatno11]

Wow ! I thought it was just me ! I had the same thing happen in the open air car park just off Commercial Road this morning....ended up using the key to unlock the doors and the alarm went off ,used the fob remote once inside the car ,drove off ok albeit with the immobiliser light flashing .. R reg classic , std alarm / immobiliser

My wife gets the same problem in the House of Fraser car park with her PT cruiser

[stum450n]

Wow ! I thought it was just me ! I had the same thing happen in the open air car park just off Commercial Road this morning....ended up using the key to unlock the doors and the alarm went off ,used the fob remote once inside the car ,drove off ok albeit with the immobiliser light flashing .. R reg classic , std alarm / immobiliser

My wife gets the same problem in the House of Fraser car park with her PT cruiser

I've had it in House of Fraser before now in my '05 GX... had to use the key and put my pin in the keypad to stop the alarm - used to get it all the time when I lived up in Lichfield... was a nightmare!!!

[edmondo]

Wow ! I thought it was just me ! I had the same thing happen in the open air car park just off Commercial Road this morning....ended up using the key to unlock the doors and the alarm went off ,used the fob remote once inside the car ,drove off ok albeit with the immobiliser light flashing .. R reg classic , std alarm / immobiliser

My wife gets the same problem in the House of Fraser car park with her PT cruiser

looks like then its just the Standard Alarms that have the problems

[andyjudge]

mmm never had it myself yet

Now where did I put the keycode in case it does ?

Andy

[scooby princess]

according to the great clarkson of top gear point it at the car but with your head between it and it blocks the signals of the radio waves!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont know if it works, just remember the top gear report

[twofourdonkey]

In my experience, it's best to just avoid Swindon totally

[edmondo]

In my experience, it's best to just avoid Swindon totally

[scooby princess]

In my experience, it's best to just avoid Swindon totally

ROB - Where have you been hiding?

[chrisatno11]

Cirencester - also avoid the Forum Car Park ( outside the police station and job centre )

Parked there twice this week and (std) immobiliser didn't work.....

regards

Chris - the one with the noisy 97 R Reg blue Classic

[monkip1]

I was going to reply to the topic thread as "All of it" but I thought against it as i didnt want to offend no one haha.