Keyless Entry Transmitter: Description and Operation

Each of the three buttons on the keyless entry remote transmitter emits a radio frequency, referred to as the Transmitter Identification Code (TIC).

The electronic door lock control remote entry system has a PANIC feature that sounds the horns and flashes the exterior lamps when the PANIC button on the remove entry transmitter is pushed.







The three TICs are programmed into the electronic door lock control processor. The electronic door lock control processor interprets the TICs and activates or deactivates electronic door lock control system functions accordingly.

The keyless entry remote transmitter performs three functions:
- Signals the electronic door lock control processor to unlock the driver's door upon receiving an unlock signal. If a second unlock signal is received within five seconds from the first unlock signal, both front doors will be unlocked. Both of these actions will activate the illuminated entry system.
- Signals the electronic door lock control processor to lock both front doors. The electronic door lock control system confirms that the front doors are locked by briefly sounding the horn, flashing the hazard lamps, and locking the front doors again when the keyless remote entry transmitter lock button is pressed a second time within five seconds.
- Signals the electronic door lock control processor to activate the panic alarm. The hazard lamps intermittently flash and the horn sounds for two minutes and forty five seconds, unless the panic alarm is turned off by pressing the keyless remote entry transmitter panic button a second time. The panic mode can also be canceled by turning the ignition switch to the ON or START position.

Up to four keyless entry remote transmitters can be programmed into the electronic door lock control processor for each vehicle. Refer to electronic door lock control processor programming. Service and Repair