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Locked Out of Car - try this
This only applies to cars that can be unlocked by that remote button on your key ring. Should you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home,(or anywhere) and you don't have "OnStar," here's your answer to the problem! If some one has access to the spare remote, call them on your mobile phone (or borrow one from someone if the mobile phone is locked in the car too!)


Call the person with the spare remote on the cell phone. Hold the mobile phone close to your car and have the other press the unlock button, holding it near the phone. Your car will unlock. It works. 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 "horn" signal go off, or whatever!)

Ever wonder how that expensive On Star works?


An additional idea:

I can offer a little bit of my expertise:

Auto Lock in your cars receives a serial stream of codes from your remote control, decodes it, if matched it will pop up the lock. But the remote has a limited range, says 100 to 200 feet. When a remote control from a distant location transmits a wireless stream of the same code and gets replayed through your mobile phones to be retransmitted to the car you want to unlock, the same transmitting-receiving mechanism happens so the locked door can be.

**OnStar = Satellite tracking system use in the US.

No Way..... Really????

W00DY wrote:No Way..... Really????

Have you tried?

No.

This almost makes me want to get a license.

Getting a license almost makes me want to get a car.

However, without the latter, someone else will have to tell me if this works... sounds... kind of like the old phone box trick to get free calls.

 LOL the phone box trick - I have a friend that would constantly ring me from those old phones, just because it was free to call.

This remote unlocking could potentially work too - if it transmits the frequency outside of human hearing but close enough to it that the the cellphone networks pick it up.

Onstar in the US uses that similar method and perhaps Radar tracking sytems here use the same.

The upper class Holdens/HSVs have similar telemetric technology to Onstar don't they? Ask a Holden owner to lock their keys out...

I wonder if this would work with my CDMA phone? Or is it that i will remain vicitmised because i use a better technology than 3G or GSM and have better range?

Killakoala wrote:I wonder if this would work with my CDMA phone?

Aaaaahhhhhh ....

CDMA.

Telstra's attempt to make a 10D.

When I lived in Dallas I had a CDMA phone for a couple of years - before moving back here. The technology, and its implementation, were excellent.

Not long after returning to Oz I bought a Telstra CDMA phone. The service was, er, um, er, ah ..

The service wasn't.

I've used Telstra CDMA 100 miles over the horizon off the coast of Townsville so i'm very happy with it.

Not that i'd need to unlock my car door from that far away though