Prevent theft from car

[KAMLEM]

did you know you could use your cell phone to open a locked car?

I've done it and it works on my 1999 Jeep Cherokee but YMMV.

I have always had the bad habit of locking my keys inside my car by leaving them on the seat or on the trunk floor as I am loading/unloading. (I also lock by using the door so you can see how this happens)

Ok, I read that you could put your keyless remote next to a cell phone and place the phone near the key lock and the phone waves will transmit the phone to the door.

So we decided to try it in our driveway(DH and I). I locked my keys in my Jeep. I stood in the driveway with my cell phone while DH was in the house. He called my phone and I answered and placed it near my key lock -- right next to it.

He then pushed the unlock button on the extra Jeep remote in the house and the car unlocked.

We were shocked.

It probably worked because he was close enough to the car for his remote to work, not because a signal was transmitted over the cell phone.

 

[snapppyd]

Just get yourself a Trunk Monkey:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y

at 1:55 mark

 

[sbell111]

According to Snopes it is an urban legend. The type of frequency emitted by the RKE is different from the type of frequency emitted by a cell phone so it will not work.

The RKE's work from quite a distance, more than once I have locked my car from inside my apartment because I could not remember if I had locked it. As the Snopes article says, many people try it out without realizing they are in range of the RKE, which is what sounds like happenedto you. The RKE frequencies are not sound based, so they will not transmit over a cell phone.

I know for a fact that you can unlock many GM cars with your celphone. First, you call OnStar...

 

[cm8]

I know for a fact that you can unlock many GM cars with your celphone. First, you call OnStar...

, totally not what I was thinking when I saw that!

 

[Octoberbride03]

VIN numbers are on the corner of the windshield on every car in full view. When stolen cars are abandoned without license plates, or the plates are stolen, that's how cops find the VIN number. It's not hidden in the car.

When you are buying a car from a private person, not a dealership, you also need to check that the VIN number on the title actually matches the car (and the Carfax if you use it.)

On our car the VIN is on EVERY part of the car, I just realized this not long ago, though we've only had the car for a year now. But its on the windshield, all the doors, the back pop-up door. And it is supposed to be in at least 1 place on the chassis because that's how they found the original WTC bomber(rental truck in the garage). Its an 08 Saturn Vue.

But yeah, I have a friend who sends these things out all the time. Used to send her the Snopes links but she still doesn't check. Guess who's mail never gets opened anymore She's also a fan of the "Send this if you love God" emails. Good thing we've known each other since birth