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Comment on Repairing a Renault Laguna Card Key by jon

jon — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:36:24 +0000

Excellent advice and post. It took me 30 minutes and £15 t for a soldering iron and solder to do .

Comment on Heating Programmer Battery by Terry Farrell

Terry Farrell — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:59:00 +0000

Thanks for the clear instructions.

Why can’t they use a clip/slot like they use on computer motherboards instead of having to go through this rigmarole. It makes me even more suspicious that they want us to throw them away and buy a replacement just because the battery has died! Not green and quite infuriating.

Comment on Street of Surprises by Rick

Rick — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:32:13 +0000

Good to hear from you Bev and good news about the action being taken – and I *have* noticed a difference. I don’t know if others do it as well but I trawl the short section (Zetland to the Blue Lagoon) each morning and last year was removing two or three a day but now no more than the same number each week. I also sometimes write to businesses explaining that fly-posting does their reputation no good – pointless for the clubs but I have found it stops small traders who haven’t properly thought it through before “posting a few small ads on nearby lamp posts”.

Now we need the commercial bins sorted out and it will be great.

Comment on Street of Surprises by Bev Knott

Bev Knott — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:29:55 +0000

You correctly state the local Neighbourhood Partnership `takes an active interest`. Specifically ( amongst other things), the NP supports, funds, and oversees an Action Group of local activists, the local Councillors, Council Officers. local Police. We have particularly targetted fly posting and graffiti; with the former there has been a major improvement over the last 6 months, both on public street furniture and on empty premises ( such as the former Coop shop next to the Baptist Church, which was previously plastered with posters and graffiti – now painted blue – is almost always free of posters and graffiti). Also Court action is being taken by the Council, e.g. Black Swan pub of Easton paid £4k in fines etc for widespread illegal flyposting including Gloucester Road, was taken to court again for repeated offence and lost £11k. I`ve just done a sweep up the north section of Gloucester Rd from Berkeley Rd to Quarrington and found 1 large poster, 1 A4 and couple smalls on lamp posts; this is microscopic compared with this time last year.
Bev Knott ( Councillor, Bishopston Ward )

Comment on Repairing a Renault Laguna Card Key by Rick

Rick — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:37:19 +0000

Hi Daniel – I haven’t seen a three button card but my Megane, like the new Koleos card has four. I would be surprised if you can’t get the battery out to replace it without cutting it open. On the two button ones the battery slides out when you remove the emergency key. On the four button ones it is harder – first remove the emergency key (by pressing the little button on the side and pulling). Then use the end of the key to prise the circular cover off the back and the battery is underneath (it is very stiff).

Comment on Repairing a Renault Laguna Card Key by daniel phillis

daniel phillis — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:59:11 +0000

hi there ! good work on your blog – your helping to make life easier for many people !

I have what seems to be a dead battery on my koleos (3 button type card) key card,
and saw the card was not easy to get open, it seems for a simple battery replacement
- i till have to prise or cut the thing open ?

Is there no simple method for just replacing the battery ?

cheers

daniel phillis
http://www.danielphillis.com

Comment on Renault Laguna Radio Controls by Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:30:49 +0000

To clarify you only use buttons 1-4 to enter the code.

Button 5 is the ‘lock/confirm’ button

Button 6 is ‘move on to next’ options

Comment on Renault Laguna Radio Controls by Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:28:49 +0000

Hi coleen

I had the same issue with the ‘speech’ display.

I found the answer was to disconnect the battery of the car.

Reconnect. Then turn the radio on. The radio will work but beep every few seconds for a few moments until after about 3 mins it will stop working and ask for the code. Simply enter this as per the advice above.

You can enter the four numbers for the code by pressing the numbers on the radio (these are the numbers 1-6).

So for example if your code is 2345, press button 1 twice. Button 2 three times etc.
Alternatively you can use the up down left right control to the left of the radio. To enter the numbers.

Next the bit I got stuck with. Button 5 is the key to finish entering the number and button 6 is the one to move on to the next part.

So once you have finished entering your code, press button 5. Essentially this locks the radio number. You will hear a beep.

Then hold do button 6 to move onto the next option screens.

Don’t really know why Renault decided to use this rather confusing pattern of needing to press both buttons!!

Comment on High Speed Chase by Gemma O'Neill

Gemma O'Neill — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:03:47 +0000

Hi there

I’m interesting in the picture of the Police narrowboat used in this article for a BBC programme due to air on 23.02.12 which makes this quite an urgent request. Can someone help me contact the person who owns this photograph please?

Best

Gemma O’Neill

Comment on Heating Programmer Battery by David

David — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:55:09 +0000

Thanks for the excellent instructions. Replacing and soldering the battery is tricky without the 3 hands! I snipped the old battery’s single pin which then allowed me to bend the battery over sufficiently to insert a small screwdriver under it for gentle leverage when unsoldering. This then left the single pin to be pulled by small pliers when unsoldered. The replacement battery had shorter pins so I have had to install it without the cradle – but it works.