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The yellow lock switch inside the rear doors gets bumped on occasion by my equipment, thereby locking me out of vehicle. Can this be disconnected? Help, now waiting for pop a lock to show!

Hi my fob wasn't working very well, it would need a couple of goes sometimes to open the doors. So gave it to a bloke in a key cutting place to check battery and he said it was holding a good charge. after he replaced it the thing wouldn't work at all. A man in M53 ford garage said the battery had been left out to long and now it needs reprograming so he tried doing it by turning on and off the ignition a number of times first 5 then 10. Still no good. He recommended a key/secure shop who then also tried it saying you do it 6 times but still no joy. He mentioned it could be a different number of times depending on the year. So does anyone know how to reset the key on my connect 2010. And do you go from possition one to lights or completely off to lights. Would rearly appreciate some help.

You need two working keys to program a new one. If you only have one working key you need to go to a Ford dealership.

Anyone know of a way to silence the chime when keys are left in the ignition?

From reading what another guy had done with his truck that was a '09 I attempted the same on my transit. If you remove the plug from the back of the ignition starter switch and then remove the red plastic tab from the front you can then remove the necessary wire from the rear of the plug. The wire on mine, which is '10, is black with a white stripe. You will need something thin and flat at the end to undo the small clip in the rear of the plug and pulled on the wire. I used a scissor from a leatherman. It definitely silenced the chime and everything seems to be working fine sans one thing and its a big one. The airbag light on the dash is permanently on now and without a passenger the "passenger air bag light" stays off, which makes me think that, worst case scenario, it has disengaged the airbag system all together or at the least the monitoring system that sends signals to the dash...hope I don't have to find out before I can find a permanent solution. So for now my sanity remains even though I have a lock actuator that has gone bad, possibly no air bags and a fuse to the cooling fans that keeps popping. I bought this car thinking function over form, now I am having second thoughts...