One of those fancy mints tins should do it for the keys, methinks. Do they still sell them?
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Marks and Spencers you posh git omg do you live in a nice area m8?. Aldi biscuit tin is good.
He has tried that m8 but he could only pick up radio Marks and Spencers on it.Apparently there is a sale on tomorrow.@avid, can you test that by putting a fob in and getting it close to your car?
With radio stuff the inverse square thing comes into play when talking about power and distance .
From what I understand, the keyfob send out a constant signal so as you walk near car the car unlocks. Then using this bad design, the thieves use something to relay the signal from your keyfob to something they've got near the car that obviously fools car into thinking the actual keyfob is near.
This, imho, is bad design and I believe manufacturers should be blamed. The government, even banning the devices, isn't going to stop thieves from acquiring them through unconventional means.
I'm a little lucky with my car, the door doesn't unlock unless I manually push the button on remote. I believe the next model after mine had the feature of keyless entry without even having to push button on remote.
Marks and Spencers you posh git omg do you live in a nice area m8?. Aldi biscuit tin is good.
@avid, can you test that by putting a fob in and getting it close to your car?
With radio stuff the inverse square thing comes into play when talking about power and distance .
Definitely not old bean
I have given my driver the day off but I will get him to try it on the Bentley first thing Monday morning
I was told by an auto locksmith that for those that have this issue, some have devised a way to turn on/off their keyfob by retrofitting something to their keyfob. It sounded like a "kill switch" type thing fitted to keyfob.If it is the sort of transponder I'm thinking of then it's the car that continually polls for a keyfob. The car tries to communicate with a fob every second or so, that's how the transponder in the keyfob gets energy to reply. Note I'm talking about real transponders not transmitters.
A type of transponder chip might look like this although these wedge type ones are old technology. The long side contains an antenna a bit like one in a long wave radio. A lot of wire wrapped round a ferrite rod.
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The type of battery powered fob where you press a button is different, it transmits to something waiting for a command.
I was told by an auto locksmith that for those that have this issue, some have devised a way to turn on/off their keyfob by retrofitting something to their keyfob. It sounded like a "kill switch" type thing fitted to keyfob.
I still maintain that car manufacturers could do more as it was their insecure "convenience" idea of keyless entry/start that made it even easier to take a car than old standard ways.
We should be able to get car manufacturers to do more under GDPR or something like that
Not sure tbh.Are they battery powered?
I thought a lot of the new proximity type weren't.
Not sure tbh.
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