OT but useful if it works

[kiev4a]

I'm going to try this when I get home tonight. Sound plausible.

Subject: Unlock your car


Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005


This works. I tried it.


Subject: Another way to Unlock Your Car


Another way to Unlock Your Car I can't believe it, but this works --
who'd
a thought it???


Have you locked the keys in the car?


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 someone who has the remote" for your car, you can unlock
the
doors (or the trunk this way!)


Editor's Note * It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
over
a cell phone each time we tried it.


Tom Heiman
Great Falls Mt
800-847-1789

 

[peter_n]

Very interesting! 🙂

 

[Goodyear]

Our car doesn't have a remote 🙁

 

[Pherdinand]

LOL this is really funny, thanks! I don't have a car at all, but maybe it will work with my bike?...🙂

 

[Rodinal Addict]

Will this also work if I lock my keys OUT if the car, with me inside?

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I think this one has been floating around for a while. I

Most remotes transmit radio waves. The cell phone doesn't retransmit those. If for some reason (I'm having a hard time imagining this) your car's remote is infrared, cell phones don't receive and retransmit light at any wavelength. Unless they are some awesome Roswell technology. 😉

Ultrasonic, don't think so

That email was circulating 2 years ago. My mother-in-Law sent it to everyone on the planet. Twice.

Bob H
Urban Legend Collector, and total skeptic. Thanks to M-in-Law.

BTW- all beef is infected with Mad Cow Disease, also thanks to M-in-Law (who claims she can give up steak)

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

I'm with Fedzilla on this. When you press the button on your remote, it doesn't make a sound, your car makes the sound (the chirp). It's not an audio signal that unlocks your car. If it were, any sound that happened to hit the pitch your car keyed on (not a pun) would accidentally unlock your doors.

 

[jlw]

Unless they are some awesome Roswell technology.

Roswell technology consisted of aluminum foil attached to balsa wood with rubber cement (to make a radar tracking reflector) and hung from a string of balloons (altitude compensating.)

I suppose that technology might have at least as good a chance of unlocking your car as the technique described!

 

[Stephan]

Ok so tou've unlocked the car.... now how do you DRIVE IT wihout the keys ? 😀

 

[bmattock]

Ok so tou've unlocked the car.... now how do you DRIVE IT wihout the keys ? 😀

He said he locked his keys in the car. Geeze!

Seriously?

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

I always go to Snopes when I have a question. SOME urban legends are true. Most are not. I have no idea why people forward them. Unless for just entertainment value.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[kiev4a]

I don't know. I emailed it to my sister, she tried it with her Toyota Avalon and says it worked. She tried it twice after I advised her to make sure she was far enough away from the car so the remote she was using with the phone wouldn't trigger it the locks conventionally.

May depend on the car. Do some use an ultra sonic tone? No reason why a phone wouldn't relay that

 

[Kin Lau]

I don't know. I emailed it to my sister, she tried it with her Toyota Avalon and says it worked. She tried it twice after I advised her to make sure she was far enough away from the car so the remote she was using with the phone wouldn't trigger it the locks conventionally.

Those remotes work on a radio signal. I know for sure that they work from about 6 floors up. I've seen them work from as far away as the 17th floor, so if you can see the car, you're not far enough away.

 

[bmattock]

Hey, I don't want to tell anyone what's what. If you say it works, it works. But there are no ultrasonic car locks.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[kiev4a]

You may be right. Tried it on our car and it didn't work (we have the same model as my sister). The remote is probably tripping the locks -- not the phone. Much ado about nothing, I guess

 

[bmattock]

You may be right. Tried it on our car and it didn't work (we have the same model as my sister). The remote is probably tripping the locks -- not the phone. Much ado about nothing, I guess

I always wonder about how stories like that get started originally. I mean someone must have tried it in desperation - maybe some weird way it worked for them. They told someone, and away it went from there. Who knows?

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Penguin_101]

I think this one has been floating around for a while. I

Most remotes transmit radio waves. The cell phone doesn't retransmit those. If for some reason (I'm having a hard time imagining this) your car's remote is infrared, cell phones don't receive and retransmit light at any wavelength. Unless they are some awesome Roswell technology. 😉

Ultrasonic, don't think so

That email was circulating 2 years ago. My mother-in-Law sent it to everyone on the planet. Twice.

Bob H
Urban Legend Collector, and total skeptic. Thanks to M-in-Law.

BTW- all beef is infected with Mad Cow Disease, also thanks to M-in-Law (who claims she can give up steak)

I am going to try it from Downtown here to see if it works just for fun anyway.

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

Hate to tell you, but WRONG. Sorry, it is ultrasonic waves and it does work.

Only in Roswell, and only in 1947.

 

[Penguin_101]

Only in Roswell, and only in 1947.

See the edit.

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

See the edit.

And the result?

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Anyone for ghost photos? 😉