Hi all,
Have been experiencing some really strange issues with our 2006 pathfinder and the intelligent fobs.
It's a UK car and until recently the car could be locked/unlocked by pressing one of the buttons outside the door as long as the key was close by.
The car could also be started by turning the brown barrel without having to insert the key.
Recently, the car does not unlock with the buttons on the door, I have to press the unlock button on the fob. Once in the car the fob refuses to be recognised and the car cannot be started - a red key icon appears toward the top right of the dashboard - I'm pretty sure this means it cannot see the fob in the car and the key needs to be used.
Have tried both fobs, changed batteries on both, and both behave the same way so I'm thinking it must be something in the car causing the problem.
Whilst trying to figure what was wrong today I noticed that when the key is slid into the ignition barrel and the brown part pushes in slowly the red key icon turns green - I can then pull the key away and start the car.
I'm guessing the problem has something to do with the ignition barrel and maybe intelligent key sensor ...
Any ideas?' - thanks.