Alarm and remote locking issue

[Shottaroddz]

Hi All,

I’m based in London, UK and have a 4.6is e53.

Recently I’ve been having an issue occurring with my central locking only working sometime from my key fob. The locking actuators work OK every time when I use the key in the door to lock everything so it’s definitely just the remote locking element.

In addition, I’m am having the alarm beep randomly every so often - not sure if they’re related issues.

I had the alarm issue happening a few months back, going off randomly during the day and night, and put it down to the fact that I just was not running the car that much and it was using this as a warning that the battery was going flat. To stop pissing off my neighbours I started locking the car with the key in the door as this seems to not arm something that does get armed when you lock with the remote key fob. This solved the random alarm problem but obviously it’s not a fix.

I know these issues have been discussed on here before(so apologies for dragging it up again) but I’m a bit confused as to where to start as my combination of alarm and key fob is slightly different so wanted to get the headline items out for discussion.

Any help to get me going in the right direction would be most appreciated.

C