There is no programing for the locks to work only with the door closed. Look at the harness between the "A" pillar and the drivers door, you might have a wire broken. With the door open it may strecth the wire and loose contact and when you close the door the broken wire may make contact with the other half.
Unlock all of the Jeep
Grand Cherokee's doors and open the driver's side door. Keeping the door open, lock it using the manual lock on the door itself.
Put the manual key into the ignition and switch it to the "On" or "Run" position, whichever applicable, without starting the engine.
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Point the remote at the receiver (located by the little bulb on the car ceiling) and hold down the "Lock" button for up to 5 seconds.
When the driver's side door unlocks, you know the remote has been programmed correctly. If you are only programming one remote, jump to the next step. If not, manually re-lock the driver's side door and repeat steps 5 and 6 using each remote you would like to program and then continue.
Turn the key to the "Off" position and turn the ignition on immediately. This must be done within 20 seconds of programming the last remote. You're finished!
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I tried that, and tried the "lock everything and unlock the tailgate with the key". No joy. Appreciate your availability but if it's not the kind of thing that is posted. (security programming for the 1995 GC) then I might as well spend $20 on a used owners manual.
It starts and runs fine, but no stereo (just flashes) and the big indicator display panel just flashes. Interestingly, if the interior light dimmer switch is pushed all the way to the right, the radio & big lcd panel go black, but. .fan doesn't work. I have a friend with a 97 so maybe he has a manual.
This is fixed. It was a 20 Amp fuse. I think it was number 8, but I do not yet have a manual that tells me which fuse does what.
What it caused was this:
power Door locks don't work until you close the door and turn on the key.
Stereo and big display panel flash about twice/second. resetting security didn't change anything. replaced fuse and it was all better.
I agree. I expect something to "not work" when a fuse blows. When the owners manual arrives that I ordered I will find out what that fuse was for and post it here.
It could never have been a broken wire as it was absolutely consistent and a broken wire wouldn't be. If I held in the button in the door frame up by the door hinges then the power locks would work with the door open.
Odd problem, but jeep does strange electrical things (in the design). Only question remaining would be why did the fuse blow?
On some all you need to do is lock and unlock the drivers door using the key.
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