Locking Your Vehicle

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Will-C

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I didn't write this but thought I should pass it on as I know we have some travelers out there

Locking your car----A WARNING ABOUT REMOTES--USE LOCK BUTTON INSIDE CAR


I can't validate this but it can't hurt to take the precaution. It's just a habit change.

I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation . I quickly chucked the errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight t o the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars. Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening....
While traveling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, briefcase.....you name it. He called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic -- there is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device..

They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car -- that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.
This is very real.

Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on. Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo, someone has our code...and whatever was in our car.

Snopes Approved --.Please share with everyone you know
D.D.
 
Sorry for passing along misinformation, I can't figure if this is not possible why someone would write it to begin with. Code grabbing equipment was a problem with garage door openers using basic radio but was later stopped when they switched to rolling code technology. I was aware of that actually happening as in our business we sell radio equipment for doors and gates. I read the article snopes put out (I guess it was Snopes) they did say it was possible. Not to buck or discredit snopes but do they ever get anything wrong? Something to think about. Once again sorry for the miss information. :oops:
D.D.
 
Wireless remotes are problematic. I just installed two new remote fans in our screen porch to replace two older ones. Each fan has it's own remote with a different code set with 4 on/off switches. Every morning, one or both of the fans is on, one of the three speeds it can run at. Thought the cats might be stepping on the remotes but obviously there's some signal getting in there from somewhere that is triggering them. Fortunately, there's a master on/off switch for both..

And, regarding cars, I had a Toyota truck about 12 years ago that, after you walked away from it, after about 15 seconds, it AUTOMATICALLY locked the doors. This was great with two exceptions. Once, going through a car wash, where you have to leave your keys in the car to let the attendant drive it out at the end, I warned them NOT to shut the engine off. They did and as it went through, I saw the lights blink and the door locks go down with the keys in the ignition (off).

Another time, I got on the express lanes south of DC, and got stopped by a trooper because I was a few minutes later than I should have been. I got out of the truck without taking my keys and, as I walked over to his patrol car, heard the truck lock behind me with the keys in it. He let me use his cell phone to call Sally to come get me (at 6AM). When she came with the spare set of keys, she was so mad that he felt sorry for me and let me go without a ticket... Glad they did away with that option!!



charlie
 
hello dd,
if one hears or reads an interesting article, believes it to be true and subsequently notify their friends of possible harm, (brats), and later discover the article was not correct, i say no harm done.
your post certainly gave us something to think about. while the technology might not be there today, who's to say in the near future they won't discover exactly how to duplicate a code?
pat

ps: there are times i do not lock my vehicle, your post has given me the motivation to stop that practice!
 
Thanks Pat!

Charlie, that was a a funny post. Not to derail this thread which seemed to have been doomed from the start, a quick wife story.
We trailered the boat down to to Cape May last weekend. The free ramp is in close proximity to a nice marina. I load our bikes into the back of the truck. We launch the boat and get situated. I get ready for Saturday's fishing trip into the ocean so my wife can turn green again. Later we walk over to the truck and get the bikes out. We ride a couple miles down into Cape May's historic district/main part of town (touristo area) from the marina area. After lunch we ride back and park and lock the bikes in a bike rack that is right in front of our finger dock. The next morning we are going to ride to a local restaurant for breakfast. Ginny starts ripping the boat apart, and is asking me where is your helmet? I gave her my stock answer "I have no idea, you must have put it somewhere". As I'm looking out at the dock and the bikes, I see a problem developing, my missing helmet is sitting on top of a piling right next to the bike rack. I must have set it down while locking the bikes. I want to somehow shift the blame on a Ginny, no way, I just say; I found it, she's now exiting out of the berth, saying where was it , I just point to it. She calls me a dumb ass for the millionth time. We live happily ever after! Can't beleive it sat there all night. Cape May is a nice place.
D.D.
 
Will-C":2xzex5wj said:
Code grabbing equipment was a problem with garage door openers using basic radio but was later stopped when they switched to rolling code technology.
D.D.
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I can attest to that. I was in the medical transportation business, some thirty years ago. We had one particular dialysis patient who we picked up three time a week. Whenever the driver would radio his arrival at the patient's house, up would go his neighbors garage door!
 
Although codes can be easily scanned and captured--most modern cars use rolling codes on the RF for the locks.

A long time ago, we lived near Long Beach Airport approach. Occasionally we would come home and find our Labrador Retriever sitting on the front porch--no way out of the yard. Then we found out that some of the RF of landing plane radios were triggering the Garage door opener.
 
I used to live near Dr Bob in So. Cal and the same thing would happen, the garage door would open up, That is when we finally narrowed it down to aircraft also, of course this was in the 60's before everyone had an auto garage door opener.
 
Quantico, near where we used to live had the garage door problem too. Not sure what freq they were on or what exactly they were doing but it was apparently an experimental thing. ALL the garage doors near them used to go up and down at random times. It made local news for many nights until they quit whatever they were doing..

And one local garage, in delivering a car to an owner after a repair, forgot the address but knew the neighborhood. To find the place, he just drove around pushing the door remote until he found the place that the door would go up and down... Eureka!

For awhile, I had my grandkids (a ten and eight year old) convinced that our garage door was voice controlled. Had the remote in my pocket!! Have also used that trick on the boat with the remote autopilot. Voice controlled steering! Amazing to some folks!! :wink: :lol:


Charlie
 
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