My key fob has never worked with the D2 since purchase

Sunroofs leak like crazy-- this will be fixed here soon...pretty sure the receiver has been damaged

The key will manually lock and unlock all doors
The button in the vehicle locks and unlocks all doors
The security light does light up
When you use the key to lock doors, no beep is emitted, no honks, etc-- the doors just lock as they are supposed to
Alarm works very well (found out when my wife set it off in a parking lot...and I had done the same recently). 4-digit code for emergency access works and shuts off the alarm and disables the immobilizer

***Red light flashes when when buttons are pressed on the FOB, but it does nothing***

So, bad receiver? Can I just replace the hardware in front of the sunroof and go about my business?

 

I have exactly these same symptoms and am under the researched impression that a swap out is all that needs to be done so I replaced the receiver yesterday...to no effect. Mine is a 99 model year and the receiver that was on the car may have been an aftermarket one already as there was no grounding plate on it (whereas there was/is on the new one). In addition mine was held on to the top of the roof by plastic rivets (not bolts) which were a huge pain to remove, I actually ended up cutting one off).

I need to get back up there sometime soon and add an electrical ground and see if that helps, finding a place to actually ground it might be a challenge, but I can see the sunroof motor which I'm sure has one.

 

Sorry that you're dealing with it, too! Please let me know if the ground issue resolves it! I haven't bothered going up there yet as I wanted to check into if just replacing would correct the issue if the receiver was to be found the problem. I will get up in there and make sure that it's plugged it, etc here soon, if I find that a swap is something that would potentially work. Thanks!

 

I did a fair amount of asking around and it seems to be a relatively straightforward swap out job, no reprogramming or anything of that nature, its basically an antenna in a box. From what I read I was expecting 8mm bolts and instead got plastic rivets, and while you can see and work with the unit by removing the rear sunroof trim and pulling down on the headliner it's real tight and the metal up there does not have finished edges as my scraped hands will attest to. I was fully prepared to cut a small hole in the headliner with a utility knife to unbolt it before the rivets were discovered, I'll be replacing the headliner this summer anyway.

At any rate, I found mine on ebay for $15, tough to go wrong at that price so I'm not going to be terribly disappointed even if the grounding doesn't fix it- I'm more concerned about the wear on my driver door lock than anything!

 

It sounds obvious, but did you check the battery in the remote? I would highly doubt it's the receiver. The fault almost certainly lies with the remote itself. All of the functions you explain are normal and expected except for the remote not accomplishing those same tasks. I have two discos and neither one of them, nor any I've ever run across, emit a sound when locking. Only a small honk when engaging super lock (clicking the lock button twice or turning the key in the lock cylinder toward the rear twice).

The alarm will engage with the key manually locking the door, so that's normal too. The remote simply unlocks and locks the door. Nothing else. Most fobs are needed to start the car, not the disco. It can be started with just the key blade. Some remotes are needed to actuate the alarm. Not the disco.

You either need a new key fob (or really just the circuit board in the key fob body), or replace a dead battery. Also pay attention to battery polarity. Some people install the battery upside down.

 

LOL! Ouch! I'm very much looking forward to your update I'm doing my headliner with bedliner this Spring. Are you sticking to an OE look? Have you considered the bedliner?



Thanks! I've read that it's pretty common for moisture from leaking sunroofs to damage the receiver. The remote lights up when it's supposed to and even if you put it right next to the receiver (headliner between them), it still doesn't work. Changing the battery did no good, either. The nearest Land Rover dealer is an hour and a half away and reprogramming isn't cheap. If I were to get a new FOB, is there something I can program myself? I don't believe so, but I could be wrong.