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Remote Unlocking??

Yahoo Message Number: 14168
I personally don't know if this works but thought I'd pass it on:

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>For those of you who have a car that can be unlocked by that remote
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
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>"horn" signal go off, or whatever)! (Editor's Note * It works fine! We
tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell >phone!) Distance doesn't seem to be a factor.

Tom Fisher
BigD

Re: Remote Unlocking??

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 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
Still don't believe, then check out:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_unlock_door.htm
or

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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Re: Remote Unlocking??

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 14186
It sure is a hoax... glad someone caught it.
A cell phone earpiece and mike work in the wrong spectrum to transmit the RF signal produced by a wireless key. Not even close... the best way is to hide a key under the coach (on the frame) in a secret place only you know of. But I guess this is too obvious a solution. snicker snicker..

R and J

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