Emergency remote car unlocking method

**Rainbow Wizard** · 5th February 2005, 11:53

Ever locked the keys in the car?

If you have remote activated locking and lock your keys in the car just call someone on your cell phone who has another set.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person hold the remote near their phone and press the unlock button and
your car will unlock.

Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. 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.

Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried and it unlocked our car over a cell phone! Neat tip.

Original source unknown

**Jantar** · 5th February 2005, 11:57

Or a brick through the side window can be just as quick.

**Rainbow Wizard** · 5th February 2005, 12:17

Originally Posted by Jantar

Or a brick through the side window can be just as quick.

Careful Jantar, people here may think such actions are typical of your approach. Reminds me of that joke how the pscho was treated for violent behaviour and the thereapists promised a wonderful bonus if the psycho learned the lesson. After they were hit by flying bricks as they walked away the psycho said "you won't forget now will ya".

**Riff Raff** · 5th February 2005, 12:54

Originally Posted by Rainbow Wizard

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person hold the remote near their phone and press the unlock button and your car will unlock.

Damn I was bored enough at work to consider trying this. Rang home to tell my flatmate where my spare remote was, but the bugger is out. HOW RUDE!!!

**Waylander** · 5th February 2005, 12:57

Have to get my mom to try this next time she is in town. She'll be callin Tauranga fo the other set, I wonder if it will work that far away.....

**Blakamin** · 5th February 2005, 13:43

What a load of shite... how can it work???

the locks on my van are uhf and ya cant transmit over the phone!!!! FFS

IF *note: big if* it does work... can someone explain how????

**Waylander** · 5th February 2005, 13:46

Originally Posted by Blakamin

What a load of shite... how can it work???

the locks on my van are uhf and ya cant transmit over the phone!!!! FFS

IF *note: big if* it does work... can someone explain how????

Have'nt the slightest clue, but I don't plan on actually locking my moms keys in her car just locking the car and having her friend in tauranga press the button. we'll see how it works when she gets here tuesday or wensday.

**Riff Raff** · 5th February 2005, 13:46

Originally Posted by Blakamin

What a load of shite... how can it work???
the locks on my van are uhf and ya cant transmit over the phone!!!! FFS
IF *note: big if* it does work... can someone explain how????

Remember on Top Gear they did the thing with remote not working cos too far away, and then putting against head and it unlocked. I've tried that one and it works. Maybe your brain waves unscramble signals sent over the phone? Can anyone else please try it cos I need to know if it works!

**Blakamin** · 5th February 2005, 14:02

Originally Posted by Riff Raff

Remember on Top Gear they did the thing with remote not working cos too far away, and then putting against head and it unlocked. I've tried that one and it works. Maybe your brain waves unscramble signals sent over the phone? Can anyone else please try it cos I need to know if it works!

brain electricity might act as antenna... phone wouldnt tho coz it broadcasts on its own frequency... my vodafone phone used to make the radar detector go nuts at times (mainly in the Hutt) till some fucker stole it... (gunna find the thievin c*nt oneday and feed him my speeding ticket!!!)

**Skunk** · 5th February 2005, 14:09

Originally Posted by Blakamin

What a load of shite... how can it work???

the locks on my van are uhf and ya cant transmit over the phone!!!! FFS

IF it does work... can someone explain how????

I can only guess the microphone and speaker can pickup and transmit that freq.

I'll go test. (Walks away to talk to wife. Wanders around testing. He's coming back...)

Nope. It's a fail. Don't work with my Dynatron (top of the line model but same basic system as at the bottom of the range) and Nokia cellphone.