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Ford Focus won't open, start etc., Battery appears to be fine.

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Hi

My 2011 Focus Titanium has a recurring issue, whereby the key fob will not open my car, doesn't respond at all to pressing the buttons on the fob.

I then open the car using the key hidden inside the fob. The car won't start, no lights come on, the engine doesn't turn at all, no warning lights etc.

I had assumed this was a battery issue, but have previously made use of my breakdown cover to bring out a guy who jumpstarted the car, which then worked - he checked the battery there and then and there was no issue with it. After that the issue didn't recur for months. On other occasions the issue has occurred on a Friday night, I've thought "I'll leave it til Monday", but have returned days later and everything works fine.

The issue has recurred variously in different conditions, times of day/year, seemingly no trigger for it that I can see.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated please. I'm not hugely car-literate so plain English and precise solutions would be great please!

Thanks

James

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    have you put new battery in the key fob ? and also tried your spare key fob too.

    think you`ll find it could well be the car battery, is it the original battery in the car still (as it will be nearly 10yrs old now), it should have ford sticker on it if it is.

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