Remote Start - Three Blinks of Red Light

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CCole77

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Having trouble with my remote start. I get the three blinks of the red light and then nothing. Obviously I have consulted the manual and it is no help, just says the action was not "received" but no way to remedy it. The googler also was no help. I did just have an ADD stealth bumper and light bars installed. Any thoughts for the FRF world on a fix other than the obvious of taking it to the dealer. Thanks.
 

kandewinn

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press lock button first, then remote start button...in case you did not know
 

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Had same problem. Disconnect the battery and set timer for 20 minutes. Re connect the battery and it should work. I had to do this twice. It resets the system.
 

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Had the same issue. Fob's wouldn't work, nor would the FordPass app. Everytime I tried, I would hear the truck make a few clicks...and nothing. Had the dealer look into it...they claimed they had to "repair some wiring". All fixed now.

Having trouble with my remote start. I get the three blinks of the red light and then nothing. Obviously I have consulted the manual and it is no help, just says the action was not "received" but no way to remedy it. The googler also was no help. I did just have an ADD stealth bumper and light bars installed. Any thoughts for the FRF world on a fix other than the obvious of taking it to the dealer. Thanks.
 

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Is your fuel level low, I know of a few that wont run factory remote start if fuel level is low.
 

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My dealers service manager explained to me that the remote start will not work when there are codes present in the computer, it's a fail safe mode that shuts off the RS. After my codes were addressed it now works fine .

Just a heads up, I was one of those guys that did some of the FORSCAN changes and pedal commander. The codes appeared after that. I reset FORSCAN changes back to stock and removed the pedal commander. The dealer told me that I had a bad throttle sensor and swapped out the complete throttle assembly, they checked and cleared all codes and all is running as it should.
 
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