[MissPharmer]

Hello all,

Beginning about three days ago, my ct has been giving me "key detected in vehicle" while the car is moving. This started to happen after the temperatures here have gotten to approximately minus 30 Celsius and mainly happen after the car detects slippage in the snow. I'm thinking this might be a problem due to the extreme cold temperatures. Also the problem seems to have worsened as when the message is being displayed, my doors will unlock themselves and the dash light will flash on and off.

Has anyone else had this problem or have any ideas? I called the dealers and they said it might be the battery getting low, but to me it doesn't seem like the cause because it only occurs after the tires slip and in very cold weather.

 

[MissPharmer]

I took my ct in to the dealer yesterday afternoon and of course it stopped having the problem that very morning, although it happened still the night before then. I took a ride with the service fellow but was unable to produce the error. He checked the battery in key by pressing and holding the lock button and did not find it to be low. The error hasn't come up since so I'm hoping it was just a minor thing and won't pop up again!
If it happens I will try switching out the battery and shutting the hatch firmly. Thanks guys!
Hey coubs, I live in Winnipeg also and I also have the problem With slow cycling between the screens during the winter. I'm getting about 7.8to 8.3L/100 in the winter. Do you have snow tires installed? With the blizzard last Saturday, I wasn't able to make it one block away from my house before getting stuck, ended up cabbing it to work (I have factory all season tired).

 

[MissPharmer]

Woot for minus 40 temperatures! XD I think I've only seen a silver one in a parking lot on Sargent. I drive a pearl white 2012 with touring package. TheSe days I'm only able to get 8.8-8.9, although I do heat my car for ten minutes in the morning And blast the heat to the max... I don't like the cold very much! I used to always keep it in Eco mode but After reading posts on the forum I've decided to give normal mode a try as people say the fuel economy is about the same, and it is painfully slow to drive in Eco. In the summer I was able to keep the car in ev mode because I go thru a lot of start and stop traffic and got 4.6-5.6. But a strange thing I found was that it seemed to progressively get worse over time. I could imagine snow tires would be much better, I was wondering About the tire pressure monitoring if I were to switch the wheels though.. I'm sure there are many posts about this as well, must do research now! ��