Thread: Locked out!! suggestions please :-)

Get under the vehicle and connect a jumper lead to the +VE on the starter motor, connect -VE to chassis and put another battery on it!

Should allow you to open the door!


Cant help with the key code.

hi mate,
I can open the door with the key whilst the battery is unplugged, however I want to confirm the correct process for entering the code. I've tried several times to no avail. Is there a default code?

I can't get past the display saying lockout!!


Update: I got the code confirmed from MLR this avo, and they raised the 30 min wait period. I'm trying a 30 min wait after re-connecting the battery, then trying the code, otherwise the computer has to come out!

Are you sure the EKA is enabled? It wasn't on early delivery P38As. What year model is yours?

it was built april 99 as per plate on front fender,

Ahh. I think EKA was enabled by then.

After the first 4 turns to the LOCK position, are you starting the entry of the first digit of the EAK by turning the key to the UNLOCK position?

I'm only reading the manual as my car doesn't use the EKA.

Originally Posted by senrta

Is there a default code?

I've heard rumours of a default code but I don't know it.

Note:

Originally Posted by TheoR

GOOD NEWS!!!

Ok, I was kinda giving up on this EKA thing and even called up the tow truck to tow the RR to the nearest Range Rover shop which is about 20 miles away.

Anyway, as the tow truck was coming my way, I did the EKA in super-slow motion. I started w/ 4 to the right, then L1, R5, L1, R5, then finally L1. Voila!! All door locks popped open, and I was able to insert the key into the ignition without the alarm going off, or the display telling me that the car was immobilized. The car started right up, after sitting in the office parking lot for the last 2 days!!!!

At thit point, the key fob still wasn't synchronized, so I did the following to resynch them:
Press the lock button on the key fob, while turning the key in the lock to the right.
Press the unlock button on the key fob, while turning the key in the lock to the left.
Then, while still having the unlock button pressed on the fob, pull out the key from the lock and hold for like 10 seconds.

The above procedure resynched the key. FYI, pressing the key fob buttons while the key was in the ignition didn't do anything in my case.

I gotta thank all of you guys for all the help!! For all of you who needs to do the EKA procedure, don't forget to do it very slowly (FYI, during the EKA procedure, I didn't notice any lights flashing inside or outside the car).

Regards,

Also note his movement to the right is for a LHD car. Reverse that for a RHD car.

More info:

Update February 2005: Confusion between LHD and RHD vehicles has been reported regarding this procedure. Alex Rudd from the UK reports "I have seen quite a few versions of using the EKA code on the net, most of which are wrong (I know, I've tried them all, and waited hours during the EKA Key Lockout session!). The correct one to follow is the version from the Range Rover handbook, which starts the key code entry on the clockwise turn - most of the others I have read refer to starting on an anti-clockwise turn, which then doesn't work." I think this contradiction is due to the difference in key lock direction between LHD and RHD vehicles (Alex's is a RHD model). This was confirmed by Ian Gibree who had to use the EKA on his Dutch-plated LHD Range Rover when interference from a cell phone tower stopped his remote from working. He used the procedure in his handbook starting withteh anti-clockwise turn and it worked. Thus it seems that the first turn should always be to the "unlock" position.

I wonder.....

Generic EKA Procedure on NAS Range Rovers
The EKA feature does not seem to be enabled on US vehicles, or some Australian ones, and is not mentioned in their owners' handbooks (but see "rest of world" section below). However there does seem to be an abbreviated version of the procedure available on NAS models, intended to be known only by Land Rover dealers and using a generic code (1515) for all vehicles which is:
Unlock once
lock 5 times,
unlock once,
and then lock 5 times.
Aidan confirms that he found out from Land Rover that the normal EKA is not applicable to US spec P38A Range Rovers, but the generic "null" code (1515) is used. For example, when replacing a BECM it asks for the code and a null # is inputted (1515).

Ignatius Wong wrote in to say the generic 1515 code he got from this page also worked on his 1996 Discovery when it its alarm system froze everything and prevented him from turning over the engine. starting the vehicle.

Rest of World:
Kieran McCoey reports from Australia that in the case of his '97 build, '98 reg 4.0 rangie the EKA procedure does definitely work (here we are speaking of the method requiring a special code for each vehicle, not the generic code). "I've had to use it a few times, when inadvertently parked next to mobile phone towers. (In fact, there is a spot in a popular skiing town we frequent notorious for immobilising Land Rovers!)." The method he used is a little different from that described above. He describes the method given in his owner's handbook as follows: To initiate the procedure, one must first turn the key anticlockwise (locking the car) 4 times. The 4-digit EKA code can then be entered- first clockwise, then anti, etc. After all 4 numbers have been entered, turn once more clockwise to unlock the vehicle, disarm the alarm, and re-mobilise the engine.

Ove Sognnes from Norway reports that the generic code worked on his also: "Range Rover Norway didn't supply me with the correct procedure for opening RR when remote is lost, but you did. Thanks again. Your procedure works perfectly on my 97 range rover HSE, open door, lock 4 times, then starting procedure. Smashing."

I forgot to mention, your door lock switch could be faulty.