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Normal Operation

WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2010 Mercury Mariner and 2010 Ford Escape. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.

Remote locking and unlocking of the doors, releasing the liftgate window, and activating the panic alarm is accomplished by the Smart Junction Box (SJB) receiving a command message from the RKE  Integrated Keyhead Transmitter (IKT). The IKT  and SJB  also utilize a rolling code to prevent the code from being "captured" by a code grabber. The system advances the counter in the RKE  transmitter and SJB  every time an IKT  button is pressed.

This pinpoint test is intended to diagnose the following: