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November 14, 2006
Good Info: Locked Keys In The Car
If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone on your (or someone else's) cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button of your key fob (clicker), holding it near the phone on their end. Your car doors will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object you could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk!).
Editor's Note * It works fine! We tried it out, and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!
Editor's Note:
I locked the car had my youngest daughter call me while I was far away from the car. I clicked open into the phone and I could hear the car doors unlock through her cell phone. My daughter confirmed that sure enough the doors opened.
Pass this one on to your friends
Cube Dweller: If someone trys this out, then let me know how it works.
Office Spam™ | By Cube Dweller | 6:51 PM
Comments
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
Posted by: Snopes at November 14, 2006 6:05 PM
It works for me , but we may be too close to the car as well because it works even without the cel phone.
Posted by: works at November 14, 2006 6:10 PM
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
Posted by: Rachel at November 15, 2006 9:12 AM
This does not work for me. I have a VW passat. Dont waste your time with this one. If you have any success then post your care model and year.
Posted by: Tommy trojan at November 21, 2006 3:22 PM
a decade ago my cousin had a cb base station and a neibour with a new car alarm.. he liked to reset the alarm again and again..my cousin took out his frequency counter and caught the alarm frequency . he then moved his radio to that frequency. the guy finished wiping his car down and set the alarm and walked away.. my cousin could see this and clicked his transmit key... the alarm unset and unlocked the doors... he would reset the alarm and watch it for minutes... as soon as he turned .. beep.. it's open... the car owner ended up sleeping in the car that night...got a differnt alarm the next day...
Posted by: waynep at October 27, 2007 6:31 PM
