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Jill King Posted on Jul 10, 2016
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2007 Buick Lucern. Key fobs will not lock/unlock car. Have reprogrammed them. Once car is unlocked by key you can lock/unlock car while in it. Once out & locked 5 minutes later won't do anything

All of a sudden stopped. 2 weeks ago was at store. Got out of car locked it with fob, came back wouldn't unlock thought maybe battery went bad. Replaced battery still no good. 2nd fob does the same thing. Followed directions per manual to reprogram, nothing

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Hi Jill:
We just spent $1000 Canadian at the Buick dealer having trouble shooting and repairs done on our 2006 Terraza.
One of the remotes had an internal broken circuit.

Had to replace the Body Control Module on the AZTEK.
Kissed another $1,000 goodbye.
Selling it.

Frankly, as long as they are working it's fine, but when they start to have problems, it is completely beyond the scope of THIS Fixya ****** to diagnose or attempt to repair.
Makes me want to sell and NEVER get another GM.
Best of luck.

Testimonial: "circuit broken in fob? They'll work after I unlock car with key. While in/outside car the fob will work. Go back 5 minutes later neither fob works. Same thing unlock with key they'll work. craziest thing I've ever dealt with. No problem prior to that stop."

  • Randy Ohler Jul 10, 2016

    Dang,, $1000 on a key fob? You got ripped. I can tell you in 2 minutes if your FOB is bad. Bad FOB or battery in it. I always check these first. Then another $1000 on a BCM. I can't remember how many of these I have fixed or bypassed part of them. Yeah, bad place to put them, under the cup holders. Along with the fuse panel. Hope you pulled the covers and covered the set up with plastic. I always do. If I couldn't fix or bypass the BCM/fuse panel. I could buy the PCM,BCM/fuse panel,key, and lock set at a junk yard for $150. They had to be out of one vehicle. This is all it takes to get most GM vehicles on the road. Some of us do know what we are doing.

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May be keyfob needs reprogramming.

Keyfob remote reprogramming is not very difficult but on some cases it can be done by dealer service tools.

If the remote s faulty then key fob will not get programmed.

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