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[dragonlord]

does anyone else find that remot works fine from all ways

but it your behind car at boot the dam thing wont work for shit and you have walk around side

both omegas iv had were are the same like theres something shilding signal from behind

i can un lock car from inside house
but stand at boot no chance

[TheBoy]

no

[mrgreen]

don't have this problem on the estate but easy fix don't stand there!!

[dragonlord]

don't have this problem on the estate but easy fix don't stand there!!

odd both of mine have been saloons

yea true but always the way you for get when youe got 10 bags of shoping you want to put in boot

[Osprey]

Yes and no. 

No problem myself but I have noticed that, erm, a certain other driver of my car would go to the rear of the car, bend down and hold the key close to the boot where she thought the lock ought to be, then find that the remote didn't work. 

Holding the key above the boot line would be fine.  I guess the metal of the boot was shielding the signal from the receiver in the cabin. 

But since the fobs have had the Martin Imber treatment, no problem anyway.   

[dragonlord]

weird I must be jinxed lol

still dose it if i hold it high even with new batt in remote

was just curosit real if anyone elses one does

annoying somtimes but not a real problem

[Rockhampton]

Yes, had it every day with mine, offside rear corner seems to be a blindspot... just approach it from the other side now 

[shyboy]

Does it happen wherever you take the car.
As it happens both my keys need the Martin Imber treatment now, but when they were working properly they simply wouldn't work whenever I went to the B&Q sheds car park in Southport.
Somebody said it was probably strong outside radio signals overpowering the key signal, and my granddaughter suggested aliens.

[Kevin Wood]

The keys used on the Omega and many other cars operate in a "License Exempt" frequency allocation at around 433 MHz.

This part of the spectrum has many other such devices operating in it. Radio controlled toys, garage door openers, cordless weather stations, cordless mice and keyboards, etc..

Furthermore, it has some bigger boys operating there. UK radio amateurs are allowed to transmit up to 400 watts on the 70cm band (430-440 MHz) and military usage is also present.

TETRA base stations used by commercial and emergency services have an allocation close to this frequency and may well be transmitting tens or hundreds of watts.

An Omega keyfob is limited to a maximum of 0.01 Watts so you can see that this signal is easily swamped by transmissions from some sites. Often base stations are located on the tops of multi-storey car parks and railway stations where they give good coverage of an urban area so it's entirely expected that you might come across areas where the fobs don't perform well.

It's well worthwhile checking your manual lock barrel still works every so often.

Kevin