[AFDakRT]

Say you drive to the store across town and you end up getting locked out of your vehicle. If you still have your cell phone on you, call whoever has access to your extra keyless entry...whether it's at home or if your significant other carries it on them. Have the other person hold the extra keyless entry up to their phone and continuously hit the unlock button while your are holding up your cell phone really close to the door or keyhole. It should unlock your vehicle from over the phone.

That is ridiculous.

 

[02sxtkota]

always switch up the hid a key, i dont trust anyone

 

[BOOM_FIST]

That is ridiculous.

I just thought it was cool, just called my wife who was heading to Target to see if it would work but genius took both sets of keys. Like all women, she carries around a suitcase of a purse so she couldn't find her set, so she took mine. I'll get around to it one day.

 

[70Cuda383]

Say you drive to the store across town and you end up getting locked out of your vehicle. If you still have your cell phone on you, call whoever has access to your extra keyless entry...whether it's at home or if your significant other carries it on them. Have the other person hold the extra keyless entry up to their phone and continuously hit the unlock button while your are holding up your cell phone really close to the door or keyhole. It should unlock your vehicle from over the phone.

total BS. anyone that's tried it and said it works, must have been close enough for the key fob to work by itself.

those things work on either infared light signal, or radio signal.

please explian to me the technology that allows a microphone to recieve radio or infared signals, turn them into a digital signal, transmit them over a cell phone bandwidth, for the recieving cell phone to then turn into a signal that comes out of a cell phone speaker.

microphones and speakers work on SOUND.

infrared is light, its like a flashlight. line of sight only. you just can't see the "light" because our eyes can't see that wavelength of light.

radio waves is another form of light energy--they are both on the electromagnetic spectrum--but have nothing to do with sound. sound requires air for the waves to travel though. light, radio waves, etc. can travel through a vacuum.

there's no way that this cell phone trick works.

 

[TazRango]

Thats why it pays to cover your vin up because not all dealerships care and will cut a key for a car thief.

That's illegal sir. You can get a ticket for it. Not to mention it is pointless in most states, since the VIN is printed on the registration/inspection stickers in the windshield and you can not tamper with or obscure those stickers in any way.

I'm pretty sure that this is an old trick but it's a new one for me.

This only works if you have 2 or more keyless entry remotes.

If you lock yourself out and you have someone else grab the extra keyless entry remote that's at home or somewhere, have them hold the remote up to the phone while you hold your phone right up to the door of your vehicle. Have them press the unlock button a bunch of times until it unlocks your vehicle. Some say it doesn't work, some say it does. I personally haven't tried it but will when I stop forgetting about it.

GO TRY IT!!

Bullshit.

I have tried it and it works. tried it on the durango and the bmw and both times it works. The other person has to button mash nad point it at the phone just right and you just point the speaker of your phone to the car.

I've tried it, and it WORKS

did it on hte bmw from 2-300ft away and it WORKED

Liar.

Yea, I've heard that it works with some and not others. Just try it all different kind of ways. It could come in handy someday.

Bullshit.

Say you drive to the store across town and you end up getting locked out of your vehicle. If you still have your cell phone on you, call whoever has access to your extra keyless entry...whether it's at home or if your significant other carries it on them. Have the other person hold the extra keyless entry up to their phone and continuously hit the unlock button while your are holding up your cell phone really close to the door or keyhole. It should unlock your vehicle from over the phone.

Bullshit.

I heard it has different effects w/ different cell carriers...aka digital or other ways :huh:

It doesn't work with any vehicle on any cell phone.

total BS. anyone that's tried it and said it works, must have been close enough for the key fob to work by itself.

those things work on either infared light signal, or radio signal.

please explian to me the technology that allows a microphone to recieve radio or infared signals, turn them into a digital signal, transmit them over a cell phone bandwidth, for the recieving cell phone to then turn into a signal that comes out of a cell phone speaker.

microphones and speakers work on SOUND.

infrared is light, its like a flashlight. line of sight only. you just can't see the "light" because our eyes can't see that wavelength of light.

radio waves is another form of light energy--they are both on the electromagnetic spectrum--but have nothing to do with sound. sound requires air for the waves to travel though. light, radio waves, etc. can travel through a vacuum.

there's no way that this cell phone trick works.

Thank you. At least someone knows their ass from a hole in the ground. However no vehicle uses infrared anymore. Some mfrs played around with that like 15 years ago, but it was very unreliable. 433MHz and 900MHz are the norm. That being said, a phone (be it cellular or landline) is 100% incapable of picking up an RF signal through the microphone and retransmitting it through the speaker on the other end. You just can not change a radio wave into a sound wave and vice-versa without a modem at each end.

People claiming they have done this 'trick' are almost as stupid as the people who swear up and down they really have opened a car door with a tennis ball.

 

[vartz04]

ford rangers, just lift up the door handle, take a long screwdriver, and you can unlock it by pulling on the cable a little, scary stuff, glad I don't drive one anymore. but it was nice when I locked the keys in my car.

 

[70Cuda383]

illegal to cover your VIN tag? I'll disagree there. there's no reason for it to be illegal.

and what about cars that were built before VIN tags were put on your dash? like the ones where it's fixed to a metal plate that's in the door jamb (no, not the door sticker, but the actual door jambs) or on the firewalls?

my license plate does not have my VIN on it, and my annual registration sticker that gets stuck to the license plate does not have my VIN on it, instead, they have the license plate sequence on it so you can tell if a sticker was swiped off someone else's tag.

it is on the registration thats in my glovebox though.

I don't have inspection stickers in Ohio, but when I did in Louisiana, they didn't put your plate number OR your VIN on it. it was just a generic tamper proof sticker that got stuck inside your windshield.

now, it is illegal to remove your VIN! but if you simply cover it up, I don't see the problem, as long as it's not done in a way that permanently covers the VIN and prevents a cop from checking it if they want to--such as a license plate over top of it that you can reach up and move out of the way for the cop who wants to check it (but I've NEVER had a cop check my VIN#, ever!)

 

[DAKSPORT1PA]

That's illegal sir. You can get a ticket for it. Not to mention it is pointless in most states, since the VIN is printed on the registration/inspection stickers in the windshield and you can not tamper with or obscure those stickers in any way.

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Really? Don't care. Its also illegal for someone to get your vin and have a key made in order to steal your vehicle but that doesn't stop them. :huh: Our registration and Inspection stickers do not have the vin number on so you can't see it from outside the vehicle so that statement is just WRONG. No one but me has any reason to see the vin number so they don't. There are plenty of other ways to have a vehicle stolen (trust me I know first hand). I"m not going to give them any more. Is it a myth? Possibly. Is it a common practice they are using. Don't know :huh: But if you want to take that chance, be my guest. I did not find anywhere on the net that says it is illegal to cover the vin on the dash. Can you find something that says it is? I would like to see it. If I'm wrong, I"m wrong. It is illegal to tamper with or alter the vin. That I know.

 

[Bruzer]

Last time I locked my keys in my truck, I called a locksmith, he put a blank into the lock 3 or 4 times went into his van cut a key and unlocked my truck.

If they know what they are doing they can bypass a lock with ease.

 

[Jarheadoo7]

when 99' and i put my body lift on.. i took my rear bumper off and noticed an unusual chunk of mud.. it was the hide-a-key from the original owner all caked w mud :jester:

 

[BOOM_FIST]

I simply said that I heard this and thought it was pretty cool. No need to blow a blood vessel.

I'm gonna cover up the VIN, whether it's illegal or not. Already have a hide-a-key...so I'm covered anyway.

 

[GWhaley]

Locks only keep the honest people honest - if someone wants in and they know what they are doing, they can be inside in a heartbeat.

The hide a key posts reminded me of my grandfather......he ALWAYS had a hide- a- key on his inner fender, etc. Worked well until he put it in his usual spot on his new truck that he bought in 86 - too bad you had to pop the hood from INSIDE the truck to get the hide- a - key out.

 

[AllThingsEnd]

Locks only keep the honest people honest - if someone wants in and they know what they are doing, they can be inside in a heartbeat.

Yup, its called breaking the window.

 

[schaffer]

Well unless I lock my pants in my truck I will never lock my wallet in there. :jester:

Well that did happen to me once:funny:

I usually can't drive with my wallet in my pocket...just to uncomfortable.

 

[Dakota 35-1]

...I did not find anywhere on the net that says it is illegal to cover the vin on the dash. Can you find something that says it is? I would like to see it. If I'm wrong, I"m wrong. It is illegal to tamper with or alter the vin. That I know.

I'm checking the Vehicle Code right now, and have yet to find where it says you can't cover it, in PA. I'll let ya know if I find it....

 

[ME111]

Locked my keys to the parts truck over the summer and spent a good hour hunting down the spare. After I got it open, I went and got a metal coat hanger. Since the door panel was already off, I could easily see how to bend the coat hanger the right way and practice the method of unlocking the door with it. Pure coincidence that earlier today, before coming across this thread, I actually touched the stored away said coat hanger for the first time in several months. Should take it and videotape the process for you guys next week but thieves might be lurking as well.

 

[02roadtrack]

In my old 92 cc I locked the keys inside once and since it was kind of a beater, I had a junk little screwdriver in the bed and thought, I will just try to go in thru the slider, broke the screwdriver. It is extremely easy to go in through the extended cab pop out window though.

 

[larstrak]

in one of my s10s, i had shaved handles, and at this point in time: i had not wired an emergency open system. my buddy locked the keys in, with both remotes, and windows up. the stupid sonofabitch didnt care until i told him he had to get the keys out, and whatever he broke: he was paying to fix. he then began thinking of ways to open it with little to no impact on his wallet. well, i'll be damned: he just pushed on the rear slider on the window, and the fucker unlatched and he slid it open, and crawled through. those windows are tougher than they appear, but the latching idea is chinsy. this skinny little pansy ass kid pushed my rear slider open and crawled right in. once he figured it out, it took him no more than 15 seconds. wow, i'll never own a slider window again and assume it's secure.

 

[schaffer]

I'm checking the Vehicle Code right now, and have yet to find where it says you can't cover it, in PA. I'll let ya know if I find it....

I'm pretty sure in PA it legal to simply cover it up.I have a strip of eletrical tape over it.Gotten pulled over twice and a cop never said anything about it.

 

[threesixoh]

those windows are tougher than they appear, but the latching idea is chinsy. this skinny little pansy ass kid pushed my rear slider open and crawled right in. once he figured it out, it took him no more than 15 seconds. wow, i'll never own a slider window again and assume it's secure.

I once locked the keys in my truck with it running. Well actually, I've done it twice. Both times I popped the latch on the sliding window to get in. I'm skinny enough I can crawl in through the slider, so I dont keep a spare key in a hide-a-key or anything.