Range on keyless entry

[Cascade Rovers]

Battery is rarely the problem. Mine only works about 3-5ft from the truck whether I wear a foil covered hard hat in a lightening storm or not. There must be a fix for this because it used to work at about 10-15ft away and certainly must have worked better when the truck was new. The LR3 remote works from inside a building and 40 ft away, no line of sight required. Shoot even the Classic works from inside my house 25 ft away.

 

[Brownie92]

There would have to be a small "antenna" inside the key fob...I wonder if you could solder a wire from that part of the circut to the head of the metal key (keeping the wire inside the key fob of course) Thereby making the key the larger antenna. Someone else can try it, I only have one fob for my truck.