Ever Locked Your Car Keys In The Car ?

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This may come in handy someday.

Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, call someone at home on your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button on your car key, 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.
 
Ok then you smartarse lot - what about those of us with a 12yo car that has no central locking, much less a remote unlocking device??!!! :lol:
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Jul 26 2005, 08:56 PM
Ok then you smartarse lot - what about those of us with a 12yo car that has no central locking, much less a remote unlocking device??!!! :lol:
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I mentioned this to Mrs Mo last night. It wouldn't work on her V-reg Honda Civic. They only gave one remote with the car!
 
Myself and the missus locked the only set of keys in the boot of the car on Currachloe Beach. We were able to call the garage in which the car was bought, and get them to make up a new key for the car.

We had to get a lift into Wexford from a mad Swiss man, which is a whole new story.
 
"Myself and the missus..." Now, come along, young Bar, 'fess up. TWO people to lock one set of carkeys in the boot? How do you do that - one grab the key, the other the keyring, and say, "1-2-3 - go!", chuck them in, and slam the lid down together?

I think you should cast all manly pride aside, Bar, and tell the truth. You locked them in, didn't you, and then called out, "Darling, have you seen the keys anywhere?" just after your dear lady wife had finished unloading the entire boot and spreading the rug and picnic on the beach. You did, didn't you? <_<
 
Clearly Barette thought it would be a good idea to place them in the bottom of the picnic basket and then expected Bar to tidy up. It was obviously his fault.

(Trivia: Curracloe beach is where they filmed the opening half hour of 'Saving Private Ryan.')
 
I hope they tidied up after themselves, AC. (Not Bar and Barette - the film co.) Is it a lovely beach? I decided not to watch the film, so didn't see it.
 
Its a gorgeous beach but didn't show it in the film. There were way too many dismembered legs, arms and seeping intestines to get a good look at it.
 
If you need the zapper to lock the car how do you then get the keys back inside.

Just a thought.
 
TETELY just think mate......... you have two different buttons (sorry) on a central locking key fob one that covers the 4 side doors/or two and one separate one for the boot 5th door if you have NOT unlocked the side doors and then put your keys in the boot floor while you get your bags/shopping out of the boot..... you then close the boot door and bingo your locked out mate very easy really? or a gust of wind closes it?.

My zapper.... key fob works from inside my house via a radio signal....... so I can arm or disharm from where I am now sitting....... :P :rolleyes:
 
Ok Merl. Just that when I blip my fob either all doors are locked including boot or they are all open including boot. Actually thats not strictly true when I blip it just the drivers door and boot open, the passenger door remains locked until you blip it again. This is a security device so no one can jump in your car when stationary then when you leave one blip and everything is locked.
 
My old car used to reactivate the alarm at least after around 5 minutes if it was left unlocked & not driven, can't remember whether it re-locked it too as well.
 
Tetley - so like my own car. I press the 'door lock' button down and hey! no-one can jump into my car when it's stationary. When I get out, I turn the KEY in the LOCK and zip! the whole car's locked up. Wow! Revolutionary, or what? :brows:

It even has 'child lock' for the windows - useful for when my mother's a passenger - and the boot can be unlocked without unlocking the whole darn car. Amazing. :blink:

Seriously - how many more bells and whistles does anyone need? Even those with every possible bit of 'protection' get mugged and hustled off to Malaysia or Dubai for resale. Why spend ££s more because a car's got all that stuff, which'll cost a second mortgage to fix if it goes wrong - probably four times more than the cost of the odd nicked coat or overnight bag of shaving gear.
 
Its not a question of bells and whistles Kri more a sign of the times, Car jacking and stealing while you wait at the lights is big business these days and most cars are now fitted with this type of security as standard.
 
Originally posted by krizon@Aug 1 2005, 01:24 AM
It even has 'child lock' for the windows
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Don't get me started on sodding child locks - my 57 year old father has had child locks put on his S-Type Jaguar as his tart on the side has 2 young kids (thank God the child seat has disappeared - how stupid did he look; a middle-aged man in an old man's car with a bloody child-seat???) - how bloody annoying??!!!! I had to sit in the car like a prat today waiting for my brother to open the door for me - he loved it, the little git!!
 
Get him to swop with Ardross, Shadz - now, a middle-aged man in a middle-aged car is much more sensible, and a child seat/dog harness/"I brake for tortoises" sign is much more Volvo-ish! :D

Tetley - there's none o' that crap down here on the south coast! There is only one real deterrent to carjacking (if it really DOES happen that much), and those are the side-mounted flamethrowers installed on some South African cars. Probably not approved of by Norwich Union, though, which is silly as it does tend to deter the little varmints far more than fancy locks.
 
As with so much technology, it's not a question of needs. It's to impress buyers at the sharp end.

Do mobile phones need to take pictures?

Do TVs need all the squillion little facilities they have on those menus?

Do cars need sat-nav? (Whatever happened to the £2.99 road map?)

Having said that, I used to enjoy zapping my car (Audi A6, the one I managed to write off :rolleyes: ) from the house. If it was warm outside, I could lower all the windows to make sure the car cooled down a little by the time I was ready to use it.
 
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