Remote central locking.

[John]

My S70 has always been poor on the remote central locking, you have to be almost touching the car for it to work. Replaced the remote key fob, made no difference.
The cause of the problem was the remote receiver that sits under the dashboard, requires removing the dash top to replace, but can now open the car from miles away (well 10 metres plus!).
Cannot help but think a lot of guys are replacing fobs when this is the cause of the problem.
Thanks again to Simon at FRF for assisting with diagnosis and the offending part.

[C70 GTT5]

is it easy to replace yourself? an how much would the garage charge? just wondered because most people after replacing the battery once would realise it wasnt the fob but wouldnt see it worth spending alot of money on to get fixed, just my opinion, but if it was cheap maybe more would?

[John]

The unit cost £104, mine had no airbags so made job easy to do, Haynes manual has picture where all screws are! simmmmple!