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  • Offline neXus

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You may or may not know
on: July 09, 2006, 00:03:20 AM
Try this

If you have the old button car lock on your key or part of your key find the max range where you can not lock and unlock your car, find that step back/forward point.

Step back out of range and put it to your head and press the button.

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Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 02:10:05 AM
Weird I was talking to my gf about this about an hour as we were leaving the cinema, got my car to unlock from 200 yards away. Coincidence I should come online and see a thread about the same thing!

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Reply #2 on: July 09, 2006, 02:10:33 AM
Yes, your head is used as an antenna :)

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Reply #3 on: July 09, 2006, 10:19:07 AM
Another party trick to add to the collection :)

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Reply #4 on: July 09, 2006, 10:40:44 AM
Quote from: Jaimz
Weird I was talking to my gf about this about an hour as we were leaving the cinema, got my car to unlock from 200 yards away. Coincidence I should come online and see a thread about the same thing!

Jaimz :rock:


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Spooky, lol.

I showed my friend in Tescos car park and she would not believe me, she managed to open it from further away them me and she still thought it was some kind of trick. I said she had a big head and so it was working better, got a slap for that, lol.

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Reply #5 on: July 09, 2006, 10:54:22 AM
The real impressive trick is to bounce it off your crotch from half a mile away  :lol:
"Within your 'purview'? Where do you think you are, some f**king regency costume drama? This is a government department, not some f**king Jane f**king Austen novel!"

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Reply #6 on: July 09, 2006, 11:15:27 AM
with the old analogue mobile phone syou could get a _very_ good signal boost by making a quick call to someone you knew wouldnt pick up, then pressing the button while the signal was going out.  

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Reply #7 on: July 10, 2006, 17:53:19 PM
this reminds me of an episode of TopGear.

J C made the exact same point

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Reply #8 on: July 10, 2006, 18:08:34 PM
Unforutnately my central locking uses an Infra-Red sensor, not radio signals.

Madrocker does this trick a lot with his mini car alarm.  Usually when we come out of bowling/cinema and all you can hear is the alarm set/reset beeping in the distance from where the car is parked.  :-)

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Reply #9 on: July 10, 2006, 18:27:42 PM
remember seeing this on a program about 10 years ago or so

they put it down to the added height IIRC
The monitored it and found no difference in signal

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Reply #10 on: July 10, 2006, 20:56:21 PM
i think its just to start a wave of people standing in a car park lookin stoopid!! it didnt work with mine............... then i realised i had not button as the car had no alarm or rcl lol

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Reply #11 on: July 10, 2006, 23:32:24 PM
Works best with the key shoved in your ear...


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Re:You may or may not know
Reply #12 on: July 12, 2006, 14:45:12 PM
I always do the fob-to-head thing :lol:

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