Q: Ignition central locking disabled

asked by on October 03, 2016

In the morning, the central locking will not work when car opened with skeleton key. Alarm keeps going off Everything immobilized. After leaving key fob in ignition for approximately 1 hour, every thing comes back to life to.

My car has 123000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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