Hi All

Sorry to tack this on at the end of this thread, but it seems that there a few people who know their onions here, and indeed this very thread has sorted me out in the past getting a new key fob working for my 98 avensis.

This time though I've gone and got myself in a bit of a muddle.

I have 2 key fobs, the unlock button ceased to function on one, so I bought a replacement circuit for it, and tried to find the same instructions again, but in hindsight I think I ended up following a different set to the ones I followed before, tried a few different ones, to no avail then I remembered that the internal light was somehow important to the circuit required for these instructions to work, I checked mine and it was blown, in the absense of an open shop near by and being my usual impatient self I shorted the bulb connectors with a bit of wire to allow a current to pass through (pretty misguided I know) at this point the entire central locking system stopped working and a queitish beeping noise came from the front of the car everytime a door openned, I thought I'd just mucked it up following the wrong set of instructions or something, later it then struck me that if the bulb has blown and I shorted it out I may have blown the circuit fuse, sure enough I had.

This evening I picked up a set of fuses and internal lights, plugged the 2 in, and first thing I did to test everything is working was get the original key fob and try locking the car, it worked, now the unlock button on my working fob isn't working either (it would really be an appalling coincidence if the physical button has given up on my second circuit, so my suspicion is that I've cocked it up not following the instructions correctly or something) The only way I could get in the car was to unlock the door manually, ofcourse off goes the alarm, the only way I could silence it was to pull out the fuse I'd just replaced, so I'm back to manual locking again (for added delight I was in the dark opposite halfords and the police happened to park up next to me whilst all this was going on :o)

I am pretty sure I found the right instructions again on this thread, but I am now in a situation where if I put the fuse in to program the key the alarm goes off, so I've given it a few goes following the reprogramming instructions with the alarm in full swing, but to no avail, I think I need a way of resetting the alarm so I can at least give the full reprogramming instructions a go, but I have no idea how to do this, the only advice I can find for disabling or restting the alarm is pull the wires out of the alarm itself, which I would be happy to do, the car isn't worth stealing these days anyway, but then would that break the circuit that the key programming needs again ?

realise this is a rambling war and peace effort of a post here, but if anyone has had the patience and interest to read it all and it makes sense and you have any advice to give I would be most appreciative, otherwise it's not such a massive hardship using it in old fashioned manual mode.

All the best - Trev