Yahoo Message Number: 14168 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/14168)
I personally don't know if this works but thought I'd pass it on:
button on your key ring: If you lock your keys in >the car and the spare keys are home, and you don't have "OnStar," here's your answer to the problem! If someone >has access to the spare remote at your home, call them on your cell phone (or borrow one from someone if the cell >phone is locked in the car, too)! Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other >person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the phone on their end. Your car 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, or have the
tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell >phone!) Distance doesn't seem to be a factor.
Tom Fisher
BigD
Yahoo Message Number: 14185 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/14185)
The use of a key remote via cell phone to unlock a car is a hoax. See:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp (http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp)
Still don't believe, then check out:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_unlock_door.htm (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_unlock_door.htm)
or
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lockedcardoor.htm (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lockedcardoor.htm)
Also try a Google search for
Snoops, urban legends and Google are great sources for checking rumors out.
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www.antivirus.com and www.sophos.com):
http://www.suncitykid.com/viruscheck/ (http://www.suncitykid.com/viruscheck/)
Herb
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