Citroen ZX Keyboard FIAL. Help pls.

[dugong]

anything modern and ubiquitous enough to both have a keypad, and a prescribed workaround to resolve is not what this forum is about!

 

get a Ledbury Maestro and we can talk..

 

yea but I fixed it with a toffee hammer during building cars live. Y U NO GIV ME CREDIT?

[320touring]

yea but I fixed it with a toffee hammer during building cars live. Y U NO GIV ME CREDIT?

you had to borrow the hammer! should have improvised using a fire extinguisher for full on foam hilarity*

[dugong]

you had to borrow the hammer! should have improvised using a fire extinguisher for full on foam hilarity*

I'll eat the foam next time just to make sure

[nebuchenezer]

The only zx I know that has a keyboard was made by Clive Sinclair.

 

No help at all really

 

I'll get my coat

[Lacquer Peel]

Those keypads are such a shit idea I'm sure no other manufacturer copied it, I'm ready to be proven wrong though.

[carlo]

Although actually seem to be fairly reliable.  I've had to use them for 10 years and not one gone wrong yet (just don't forget the code)

[wuvvum]

I'll eat the foam next time just to make sure

I seem to recall from going on a fire safety course back in the day that fire extinguisher foam is actually a laxative.  Just sayin like.

[richardmorris]

Now it's running can you just pull the plug out of the back of the keypad so you don't need it?

[beko1987]

Doubt it, i bet it sends a signal to the rear left numberplate light, which tells the sunroof which tells the 2nd injector to let the ecu know its code clear.

 

If that message isnt passed, i doubt unplugging alone would cure it. Once code green is passed then unplug it as it waits for a reset signal to rearm it, which never happens

 

I did like my keypads tbh

[ruffgeezer]

Yeah if you unplug it with it running it deactivates it, however in this case it wasn't a fault with the keypad, it was the warm squishy thing operating it coming the wrong conclusion

[beko1987]

Theres a reset how to in the manual iirc

[dugong]

Yeah if you unplug it with it running it deactivates it, however in this case it wasn't a fault with the keypad, it was the warm squishy thing operating it coming the wrong conclusion

I think it was a combination of both. I locked myself out AND the starter connection was manky. 

[loserone]

Those keypads are such a shit idea I'm sure no other manufacturer copied it, I'm ready to be proven wrong though.

 

My Impreza has one which you can use if you don't have the remote keyfob.  You can use if for programming the immobiliser to recognise new* keyfobs.

 

Or, you could, if the bottom row of digits worked.

[Arthur Foxhake]

My Impreza has one which you can use if you don't have the remote keyfob. You can use if for programming the immobiliser to recognise new* keyfobs.

 

Or, you could, if the bottom row of digits worked.

Awesome.

[vulgalour]

I liked the keypad in the Xantia until it broke.  Then I unplugged the keypad put left it in the car to fill the hole.  I didn't realise the ZX was afflicted with the keypad too.

 

There's something very satisfying about getting in a car where you have to input a code, then wait for a little light to go out on the dash, then wait for the suspension to come up to height while another bigger light goes out before you can set off.  It appeals to my inner motoring masochist. 

[Cavcraft]

It's not appealing when it's freezing cold at 7.00pm, you're leaving work after a shit day and just want to get home. In fact, they're not appealing at all, they're just shit.

[beko1987]

I liked mine, and did at one point have a proper code, until I did get bored of mis-pressing a digit when half asleep and it locking itself out for that try, so just made it the same number 4 times.

 

My first ZX was obv 2222 for its whole life as thats what it was when I had it, and the 2 button was visibly shinier. I changed it to 6666 and all was well!

 

XM's keypad was better as it was hidden under a flap in centre bit of the cabin. Always a sense of occasion tappint it up, key in and popping it back down.

 

Current pre keypad ZX hates starting unless the glow plug light it out, even if I've been driving for 2 hours, stop for less than a minute then fire it back up again, that takes longer to do than the keypad IMO.

[vulgalour]

what?  You don't need to do any of that.  Pull keypad out of centre console, input code, start car, unplug and put keypad back in hole.  It's what I did on the Xantia you drive every day, no need to fanny about with stop solenoids and all that crap.

[Noel Tidybeard]

just to add to the misery the poojoe 406 version of this keypad abomination is pivoted so it can hide in the dash which of course means that the wires absolutely do not* break inside the plastic sheath

[Captain Slow]

I had to tow Partridge's 605 home last night with my Bangernomics Rover.

 

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