How to get into your car if your locked out

[pd123]

A friend sent me this email it seems interesting but I doubt it will work, If anyone tries it post the resutls, it will be interesting... "If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, call someone at home on your cell phone and ask them to get your car keys. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at home press the unlock button on your keys while holding it near
the phone on their end. Your car will unlock. It will save 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 omeone who has the "remote" for your car, you will he able to unlock the doors (or the trunk this way!)"

[Bires]

Most car remotes are radio frequency, meaning they broadcast an RF signal (like a weak AM signal). It is not audio.

I've heard this before, and it shouldn't work. If anyone gets it to work, post it, and then replace your keyless system.

[sizemic1]

haha...that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard.

Like Bires said..those transmitters are RF signals..nothing audible.

[speedracer120]

ROFLMAO. I'd like to see some numbnuts try to unlock their doors with that. Now if it were Onstar or some similar service, yeah get yourself on the phone. Hahaha, some people are horrendously clueless.

[cruelpupet]

an easier solution....

get a VW. I have a hard time locking my car with the keys in it. Yes, sometimes i do that on purpose so i can leave the car running while im not in it.

[ski]

an easier solution....

get a VW. I have a hard time locking my car with the keys in it. Yes, sometimes i do that on purpose so i can leave the car running while im not in it.

Your easier solution involves spending $16,000 or more

[DarkFury]

But what if they go.. "Bwwaap Bwwaap" really loud into the phone?

[mechmike0034]

*COUGH* BULLSNOT! *COUGH*
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...nlock_door.htm

[pd123]

Well, at least I created a topic that brought activity and discussion. Oh Well!

[kimchicowboy]

i;ll be the first to say i believe it. hahahaha.

[Jane83]

whos gonna volunteer and lock their keys in??

[bachviet]

with all above about this $hit won't work.

[Nanotech9]

its impossible to lock your keys in a BMW (that i know of...) even my old '91.

i guess unless you closed the driver door, locked it, tossed the keys to teh passenger, and let them throw them in the car and then shut their door... i guess that could work.

[Bires]

I'm looking forward to keyless cars, like the Toyota Avalon. You just carry a credit-card-size FM deflector (like the little security strips on CD boxes), and the car senses it's you and unlocks/starts.

[Houdini]

I was arguing this with my brother just a few days ago. His GF believes that this cell phone trick worked for her last week. I told them it was impossible, due to the obvious impossiblity of sending RF via the mic of a cell phone. She swears it worked. I don't believe her. Actually, I should ask her how far the "sender" was from her car at the time.

[InfiniteNothing]

I'm looking forward to keyless cars, like the Toyota Avalon. You just carry a credit-card-size FM deflector (like the little security strips on CD boxes), and the car senses it's you and unlocks/starts.

It seems somewhat easy to hack. Just walk by someone and check the RF signal they are giving of and replay it by their car. Does it start the ignition too?

[bachviet]

It seems somewhat easy to hack. Just walk by someone and check the RF signal they are giving of and replay it by their car. Does it start the ignition too?

Most likely it has rolling codes just like garage openers so it's harder to hack.

[InfiniteNothing]

Most likely it has rolling codes just like garage openers so it's harder to hack.

How would rolling codes prevent someone here? It just wouldn't work because they are functionally different in that you have to press a button to set off the garage door.

[Houdini]

How would rolling codes prevent someone here? It just wouldn't work because they are functionally different in that you have to press a button to set off the garage door.

I'd imagine the "wake-up" signal transmitted or received that allows recognition could also roll the code. Or maybe pushing the start button would set the codes for the next time.

Either way that system sounds better than some current ones where you have to insert a key and then push a button. Seems rather pointless to me. Why not just turn the key? I realize that jamming a screwdriver in the steering column to start the car wouldn't work anymore, but it won't work on many cars today that use induction-transmitted rolling codes to start the car once the key is in the ignition. Even my thin plastic valet key has a chip that talks to the car's computer to allow it to start. Nifty.

[Agent Plissken]

To get into your locked car: Take your cellphone and smash it through the window, now reach in to unlock it.

note: this works better with older bulkier cell phones, and also works with bricks or large rocks.

[Bires]

It seems somewhat easy to hack. Just walk by someone and check the RF signal they are giving of and replay it by their car. Does it start the ignition too?

It's not a transmitter. It's a transponder, like the little ones in our keys, only larger. It's like a microwave reflector. The physical makeup of the reflector would be impossible to copy unless you had the dealer's code or the actual transponder.

I was driving a Prius the other day, and they have the same thing. Walk up-it unlocks. The ignition is a little "start" button. (very cool car, btw)

[cruelpupet]

Your easier solution involves spending $16,000 or more

yes, but i wont look like a shmuck holding his cell phone to the door

[InfiniteNothing]

It's not a transmitter. It's a transponder, like the little ones in our keys, only larger. It's like a microwave reflector. The physical makeup of the reflector would be impossible to copy unless you had the dealer's code or the actual transponder.

I was driving a Prius the other day, and they have the same thing. Walk up-it unlocks. The ignition is a little "start" button. (very cool car, btw)

You have any links on how it works. I don't see how the physical make up of something matters or how a car can detect mirrors.

Edit:

I searched google and I found a corvette that transmits everytime there's motion and then I searched for ""passive keyless entry" Toyota Avalon" and found next to nothing http://www.google.com/search?q=Toyot...ry%22&hl=en&lr=

[BigJon]

I can lock my van while it's running. Something that holds the ignition tumbler (the part the key goes in and turns) broke off. I can start it, but if i pull the key out too fast, the whole tumbler falls out.

I don't like to do it a lot because then it looks like the thing has been jacked ...sitting there with no ignition.

[speedracer120]

Our old 88 Cavalier used to be able to do something like that. We could just pull out the keys and leave the engine running lock the doors run in to 7-11 and come back to a cooled or warmed car.

My cousins old POS Tercel from way back when was worse. Pop in any similar Toyo key and the doors and ignition all worked.

[Nanotech9]

you can do that in all saturns supposedly - just crank it up and pull the key out, and lock the car behind ou so it'll warm up in the morning or something.