Example:[Collected on the Internet, 2004] 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, 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. Your car will unlock. and 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!) Enter the idea of the poor man’s OnStar. No need to pay for a fancy car-unlocking service: just use a cell phone to call someone who has access Unlock Car Through Cell Phoneto your spare RKE device and tell him to point it at the phone and press the “UNLOCK” button. You simultaneously point the cell phone at your car door, and Relaying remote entry system signals via telephone might work if the signals were sound-based, but they’re not. An RKE system transmits an encrypted data stream to a receiver inside the automobile via an RF (radio frequency) signal, a signal that can’t be effectively relayed via cell phone. (In any event, RKE systems and cell phones typically operate on completely different frequencies; the former in the (More than a few people have inadvertently fooled themselves into believing the cell phone method of unlocking car doors actually works because they tried it and achieved the desired It’s possible this method might work with cars that use something different than standard RKE systems, but it doesn’t work with the vast majority of models. As an owner of a vehicle equipped with an RKE system, I’ve found that it has reduced the likelihood of my locking my keys in the car in an unexpected way: Since I quickly became accustomed to always locking and unlocking the car with the RKE device, and I carry the RKE device on the same ring as my keys, I have to be standing outside the vehicle with my keys in my hand in order to lock it. Now if I only had something to keep me from losing my cell Additional information:
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