Does it work?

[R. Richard]

This supposedly works if your car has remote controlled locks.

Let us suppose that you lock your remote (key) in your car. You need to have a cell phone with you. You use the cell phone to call someone at home who has your spare remote.

You hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button on the remote, while holding the spare remote near the phone on their end.

The remote controlled lock on your car will unlock.

If it works, it saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Best of all, distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away from home, and if you can reach someone who has the spare remote for your car, you can unlock the doors!

Now for the key question for someone on AH with a car with remote controlled locks and a cell phone. Does it really work?

TIA!

 

[Liar]

If your car remote operates with sound then maybe but probably not. If it's IR then naah. If it works via radio, then it would have to have the same frequence as cell phones, which would create the mother of all fuckups in other areas.

So I doubt it.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I questioned my source and he said possibly, I'll have to test it with my car now.......damn you Mr. Science.

 

[Boxlicker101]

This supposedly works if your car has remote controlled locks.

Let us suppose that you lock your remote (key) in your car. You need to have a cell phone with you. You use the cell phone to call someone at home who has your spare remote.

You hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button on the remote, while holding the spare remote near the phone on their end.

The remote controlled lock on your car will unlock.

If it works, it saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Best of all, distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away from home, and if you can reach someone who has the spare remote for your car, you can unlock the doors!

Now for the key question for someone on AH with a car with remote controlled locks and a cell phone. Does it really work?

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TIA!

How can you lock your remote key in your car? To use it, you have to hold it and press the button.

I doubt if the cell phone thing would work. A remote key sends an electrical impulse and I don't believe that could be transmitted through a telephone.

 

[JRaven]

If it works through sound, it could be tested using a tape recorder. Oh wait, I don't they sell those any more. Try an MP3 player. But I'm not sure how you'd get the headphones around your car so it could hear it.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I always assumed that remote locks used either infra-red, like TV and VCR remotes, or radio waves, like garage door openers.
Neither of these could be transmitted through a cell phone.

It won't work.

---dr.M.

 

[Liar]

I always assumed that remote locks used either infra-red, like TV and VCR remotes, or radio waves, like garage door openers.
Neither of these could be transmitted through a cell phone.

It won't work.

---dr.M.

On the other hand, I managed to program the IR on my cell phone to mimic my TV remote. Could probably use it to mimic an IR key to a car too.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Nobody has answered my question yet. How could you lock your remote key in a car since you have to be holding it to use it?

 

[minsue]

Nobody has answered my question yet. How could you lock your remote key in a car since you have to be holding it to use it?

Aren't most cars also locked by using the thingys on the doors themselves instead of the remote?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Nobody has answered my question yet. How could you lock your remote key in a car since you have to be holding it to use it?

You could hit the lock button when you were getting out of the car.


And no, it would not work. All car remotes use radio waves. IR is to directional and isn't all that fond of direct sunlight. So there is no way to transmit the signals thru a cell phone.

 

[oggbashan]

In the last few months at my shop I had installed a radio operated bell. It had a range of 30 metres from bellpush to ringer.

If a customer pushed the bellpush the ringer would sound 'ding dong'. No surprise there.

However, if anyone operated a car remote locking system within 30 metres of the bell's ringer - the bell would sound. Not 'ding dong' but variations. Some sounded as 'ding ding ding'; some as 'dong dong dong'; some as a strangled 'squawk'; and some as a continuous 'buzz'.

I don't think it worked the other way. I had no reports of cars being unlocked by my bellpush.

The bell and bellpush had twelve variations of signal. All twelve were affected in some way by cars' remote locks.

I took the batteries out of the system every time I locked the shop so that the flat above wouldn't be disturbed by the bell.

Og

 

[TheEarl]

Jack!

I had no reports of cars being unlocked by my bellpush.

Quick threadjack to snigger. Don't know why, but this line struck me as funny.

I now return you to your scheduled threading.

The Earl

 

[M Crim]

Nobody has answered my question yet. How could you lock your remote key in a car since you have to be holding it to use it?

With my car it will lock itself automatically after a few minutes. I enjoyed finding this out one day when I took the car to the car wash and spent three hours waiting for the locksmith to break into my car.

 

[gauchecritic]

Well if the unlock emission won't broadcast over a mobile network then maybe you could fax yourself a copy of the key.

This will probably only work in about a thousand year's time.