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Thread ID: 75046 2006-12-14 20:40:00 Can you open your car remotely using a cellphone? netchicken (4843) PC World Chat
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506671 2006-12-14 20:40:00 Some people say you can, others cry hoax . . . .
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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!) .
netchicken (4843)
506672 2006-12-14 21:20:00 Your thread there too. Some say that improbable stuff like this gets posted to drive hits on other web sites, could be right. PaulD (232)
506673 2006-12-14 22:44:00 Your thread there too. Some say that improbable stuff like this gets posted to drive hits on other web sites, could be right.

Sounds like an urban myth to me :D
Shortcircuit (1666)
506674 2006-12-14 23:04:00 load of crap.

however some alarm systems have built in pager /cell phone systems. they can diaal out if car alarm goes off and some can be controlled remote via phone, dail it up, entre password etc and set/disarm alarm etc :)
tweak'e (69)
506675 2006-12-14 23:24:00 The typical car remote uses 433 Mhz (433,000 kHz) "rolling coded" FSK transmissions.

The cellphone is capable of "transmitting" signals up to ~ 3,000 kHz (voice frequencies)

There you will see the impossibility of the suggestion.
godfather (25)
506676 2006-12-14 23:25:00 You defintely can't open my car like that. pctek (84)
506677 2006-12-15 01:44:00 My car's the most secure of all. You can't open it with ANY key fob, cell phone... Nothing that runs on power will open my car. :p george12 (7)
506678 2006-12-15 01:51:00 Nothing that runs on power will open my car. :p

Want to bet on that?
PaulD (232)
506679 2006-12-15 01:53:00 My car's the most secure of all. You can't open it with ANY key fob, cell phone... Nothing that runs on power will open my car. :p
Chainsaw maybe? (an electric one :p) :rolleyes:
Dannz (1668)
506680 2006-12-15 08:37:00 I take all the credit for this point of interest being on Close Up tonight on TV1 :) netchicken (4843)
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