Marc Favreau

The author has 30+ years of automotive experience and has assembled the most extensive collection of symbols and warning lights anywhere (over 1,000!) and can help you open and start any keyless start car with a dead key fob battery. BA, St. Joseph's, ME: MS, RPI, NY

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A new separate Land Rover back-up start page is up at the site

Land Rover back-up start After updating Land Rover back-up start procedures it was clear that the company needed its own page. That page is now up. Jaguar gets to keep the original. When we first made the page, the sister companies shared nearly identical procedures, back up start locations and key fobs. Over time, those …

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Start a Land Rover with a Dead Key Fob

How to Start a Land Rover with a Dead Key Fob Starting Your Land Rover First, if you are still locked out, click here for help getting inside! Second, for video help, click here! Finally, if you need or want another manufacturer, click here. Land Rover models use three areas as back-up start locations. Two …

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Jaguar back-up start option reveals three model changes

Jaguar back-up start An update of Jaguar back-up start locations finds changes in three models: the XE, XF, and F-Pace. All the changes came in 2020 and 2021 — its been too long since we updated! If you’re wondering, back-up start locations are made necessary when the battery in the key fob is depleted, which …

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Land Rover back-up start option for “New” Range Rover’s lands in an awkward spot

Land Rover back-up start A full update of Land Rover back-up start locations hides in not so plain site. To get at it — and the associated USB ports — the cup holders need to be moved out of the way! Back-up start locations are made necessary when the battery in the key fob is …

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Jaguar back-up entry review turns up one addition

Jaguar back-up entry After the Land Rover entry update, we shifted to update the sister company Jaguar back-up entry. The two companies currently share a page, but it reads poorly and they will need to be separated. In any case, we found a single change involving the F-Type, and its something we had evidently simply …

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Jaguar symbols page now sports the color re-set

Jaguar symbols As we continue an update of Land Rover back-up entry and start processes as well as its dashboard symbols page, we have re-ordered sister company Jaguar symbols page by color. That’s now 45 of our 49 symbols pages re-set, and it sure is tempting to polish them all off. We expect that what …

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A review of Land Rover back-up open procedures finds new models

Land Rover back-up open A full review of Land Rover back-up open processes results in the addition of three new models but only a single new open option. And not all three models share the process. Back-up open procedures are made necessary by the batteries in key fobs dying. On rare occasions radio interference from …

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