Keyless entry......
the numbers on the pad are arranged so that two numbers share a common pad. 1 and 2 are on the same,,, 3 and 4 are on the same pad ect ect.
so.........
the combo to open the door "makes you think" you have to hit the exact side of the button in order to make the number work.
actually......
all you have to do is just hit the whole button and the combo still works.
you dont have to really hit the edge of each button at all, just the whole button.
:Dactually my oldest boy mason figured this out!
How did he figure it out... did he read the owner's manual? It's mentioned in there :hick:
So basically theres only 5 "real" numbers on the pad huh?
Im pretty sure you have to hit the individual number on mark viii's.
It wasnt me i swear. O your SON mason.
Scott. I could have told you this LOL. Kudos to your son
well , the previous owner was showing me around the car and whatnot, and i saw how he washiznitting the buttons. Using his thumbnail to kinda get to each little number. I just thought thats how you did it.
His reason on how he did it,,
"well dad, you never know till you try. It didnt make sense to me. Grownups dont have fingers that small"
that boy leaves me scratching my head sometimes. Nope, he didnt read the owners manual.
its the name mason, makes him good like that!
you nailed it. just hit the whole darn button.
and...........................
i just realized something else on the 20th....
emergency brake does not ratchet into place. Its quite as a mouse and stays put. Then you put the car into drive and the darn thing disengages on its own. it must be some sort of friction thingamajig instead of a wratchet/pawl setup.
I dont like this cause sometimes that ebrake can be handy for when the car is in drive. I use to check the white coug tranny fluid in drive with the ebrake on.
On the 20th, i have to have the front wheels against something.
vacuum release.
My mark does the same thing, sacred me shiznitless the first time it happened.
That's funny. I have known this all along, but I say the number code in my head even though some numbers are just the other number on the same key - lol!
BTW, my nephew, when he was about 8 years old, figured out that you can simply push the keys in random order until the door unlocks. This happens because there is no lock-out when a key is pressed - as soon as the correct combination is pressed - even if it's in the middle of a random bunch of button pressed, the door will open.
im not sure but i dont think it will allow you to lock your keys in the car with the key pad.,,will it? or with the power door lock??
why dont you go find out for me:evilgrin:
Just press the 7/8 & 9/0 buttons at the same time, you'll find out...(hope you know your code)...
Lincons are no different from the others, there are only five contacts in any of the pads and this includes the newer vehicles...
The vacuum parking brake release was optional on many vehicles... Like Leather seats, a hole in my roof and EATC, it's another thing I don't want...
Yep, my nephew learned the "random button unlock" trick on my dads Mercury Marquis.
I removed the vacuum brake release thing cause, like so many of them eventually will, it was leaking vacuum.
I will say I like the heated suede center seats and you can drive the car with your brain turned off. The EATC keeps me warm (no A/C), the headlights auto turn-on and auto high-beam on back roads, so even when I'm spaced out the car knows what to do. :hick:
Yeah I really have grown VERY accustomed to all the little bells and whistles too.
And about the keyless entry....I actually remember when I was about 10 years old my mom got a 93 explorer limited, had keyless, and I wondered "what the heck is the point of having two numbers on each button? how does it know which you want, its only one button!!!!" puzzled me forEVER....lol
And I believe me auto parking brake release does work, really neat, but there was this hissing when youd put it in gear, and if you just wiggled the handle back and forth a little it would ALWAYS go away :hick: but I kinda got sick and tired of that recently so I got rid of the line and capped it off. Haha no more hissing!!!! MUCH better and I really dont need the auto release right now. Id much rather get my cruise control working....:mad: think the module itself is bad...
im just curious about the cruise ,, maybe my problem and yours are the same. Seems like everyone elses works fine.
Ill be digging into that this weekend hopefully.,,after balljoints which wont take that long and hooking up the keyless entry plug for the driver door.
haha yeah thats what i thought actually when i first read your post talking about the car..."wow his cruise doesnt work too"
idk i just...did the bypass "hotwire" i guess you might call it test that those instructions gave, that apparently gave direct power to the module and nothing happened so i think its bad....just gotta find another module sometime...