Bigvic

If you can’t change over the modules from the damaged doors to the new doors, then yes, you will need to get them reprogrammed.

In order:

dealer - super expensive

specialist - not as expensive

somebody with a mongoose cable - couple of pints

Sounds to me, and from your description, that you have two problems

You said that you had to press hard on the button to lock it and the unlock button was fine? This indicates that the actual button was failing, not the whole fob

Do the boot and headlight buttons work ok? Try both fobs

You also say that you have to put the fob in the slot for the car to see it. This is a totally separate problem.

there is a transponder in the fob, it could be the glass type or plastic, I don’t know, but this is not connected to the fob battery in any way. Some folk say it is, but it isn’t - trust me.

The car is sending a unique signal out all the time and this induces a tiny voltage in the transponder which, in turn, sends a signal which the car recognises, letting you start the car

it’s pretty unlikely that the transponders in both fobs have failed, so the problem, I think lies with the car’s receiver which is in the dash, close to the slot

in my humble opinion, I don’t thing shelling out a small fortune will fix all your problems, you can get the buttons on your fobs fixed, do a search for keyfob repairs, you can also get the switches from eBay for a few bob and do it yourself

This is the longest reply I’ve ever written!!

These tend to be the classic faults from a duff battery

It’s a total rip off...

you can buy new motors around £10-£15 per door from eBay and fix it yourself

You should’nt have  any judder at all

check bushes for wear, front and back

bent suspension bits, front and back

same brand tyres and over/under inflation

If you had a code reader, it would tell you on that

Deffo lock problem

Remember it locks twice, it could be the deadlocking...

Test EVERYTHING and make sure it all works!

if it does, buy it. These cars are great

don’t worry about all the problems you read on forums, these are always the minority of cars built, the majority of cars you’ll never hear about is because they work

Suspect a parking sensor

if you have a code reader, plug it in and it will tell you

other than that, you’re just throwing money at it and hoping...

Unknown, but it could be a battery problem

It could be waiting for enough charge in the battery before it fires up

I would check my battery

There’s something wrong with one of your door locks

If you have passive unlocking, lock your doors normally (get the double beep) put your fob at least 5 metres away and try all your doors and boot. The one that opens is the faulty lock

Be prepared for the alarm going off...

The boot doesn’t fully open, it just pops the lock

you’ve got to handimatically lift it

Believe it or not, I read somewhere that a small dead insect was found rattling about inside one of these lights switching it on and off. Yours could be the same

Logic suggests that the problem lies in the transponder signal receiver then - wherever that may be....

I think, but I’m not sure, that it’s behind the middle of the dash somewhere 

Ah, this is something different then...

is your car the passive entry model? ie, does the door magically open when you try the lock?

It does sound like battery or battery post connections

Incidentally, the transponder in the key doesn’t need a battery for the car to see it

I would suggest that the transponder in the key is faulty

you could go to a locksmith and maybe he could fix it by reprogramming it. You would need to take your good key along so that he could copy and transfer the program in that

There’s either a hole in one of your turbo hoses or it’s blown off - the hose that is.

get your dpf regened at a garage - there are some fancy code readers that can do that for you

Finally, there’s likely still a hole (vacuum leak) in your air intake, although I think you’ve got to turn the car on and off six times to get rid of old codes

Your mirrors are probably staying folded because your door locks don’t work

I’ve been through it all with my drivers door which stopped the passenger door from locking and the mirrors from folding

In my case, I changed the motors in the door lock