StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Jan 7, 2019 17:58:38 GMT
My vehicle won’t lock with the fob in it. Learned this the hard way when we were on a trip out of town and had purposefully packed our second fob. It was buried in luggage under tons of stuff in the back of the SUV with a bike mounted on the back. Wanted to go shopping, but was so paranoid about our things being stolen. And it took forever to figure out why the darn doors wouldn’t lock! Not with the fob, not with the door locks. One thing I do like about the fob is that it is super easy to detach the rest of our keys for valet parking, that frequently comes in handy. I don’t like that I don’t have to remove the keys to turn off the car. There was at least 3 times I left the car running while I was shopping when we first got it. Also, and I will admit this more more me than the fob, I realized forgot something in the house right after pulling out of the driveway so pulled in, grabbed my house keys on the fob, and jumped out to run into the house. Without turning the car off or putting it in park. If our trash can wasn’t there the vehicle would have ended up in the garage via the garage door and support. With a regular key I would have been forced to turn off the car, which in turn would have made me put it in park. Also like that the passenger can access/lock the glove compartment without having to stop the car. This especially come ins handy for our electronics while pulling up to valet parking and not having to make them wait on us. I did this. I killed a trash can and damaged 3 of our vehicles which was a relief because it was heading towards the neighbors house and there was a very real chance of running myself over.
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Post by dewryce on Jan 7, 2019 19:13:21 GMT
My vehicle won’t lock with the fob in it. Learned this the hard way when we were on a trip out of town and had purposefully packed our second fob. It was buried in luggage under tons of stuff in the back of the SUV with a bike mounted on the back. Wanted to go shopping, but was so paranoid about our things being stolen. And it took forever to figure out why the darn doors wouldn’t lock! Not with the fob, not with the door locks. One thing I do like about the fob is that it is super easy to detach the rest of our keys for valet parking, that frequently comes in handy. I don’t like that I don’t have to remove the keys to turn off the car. There was at least 3 times I left the car running while I was shopping when we first got it. Also, and I will admit this more more me than the fob, I realized forgot something in the house right after pulling out of the driveway so pulled in, grabbed my house keys on the fob, and jumped out to run into the house. Without turning the car off or putting it in park. If our trash can wasn’t there the vehicle would have ended up in the garage via the garage door and support. With a regular key I would have been forced to turn off the car, which in turn would have made me put it in park. Also like that the passenger can access/lock the glove compartment without having to stop the car. This especially come ins handy for our electronics while pulling up to valet parking and not having to make them wait on us. I did this. I killed a trash can and damaged 3 of our vehicles which was a relief because it was heading towards the neighbors house and there was a very real chance of running myself over. I remember that, just didn’t remember the cause! I’m also lucky my mom was there and the driveway is at an incline. She jumped out to put something in the savior trash can while I went in the house. I was on the porch when she started screaming. So, things were definitely in my favor where they weren’t in yours. But both of us were lucky and things could have been much worse!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 19:20:31 GMT
My vehicle won't lock with the fob inside either.
I have love hate relationship with fobs. I LOVE that I never have to dig into my purse to get my keys out. I LOVE that I can lock and unlock the car door by touching the sensor-are on the door handle. I LOVE that I can open and close the hatchback from the front drivers seat.
What I hate about the fob? Those little suckers are VERY expensive if one is lost. They are not good for absent-minded teenagers, especially when the fob does not have a detachable key. My kid lost BOTH of the fobs to her car, within one week, right after her father was laid off from his job. The service manager at our local Toyota dealership made us such a wonderful deal that I burst out in tears on the phone. The man seriously did us a HUGE favor.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jan 7, 2019 19:20:43 GMT
My vehicle won’t lock with the fob in it. Learned this the hard way when we were on a trip out of town and had purposefully packed our second fob. It was buried in luggage under tons of stuff in the back of the SUV with a bike mounted on the back. Wanted to go shopping, but was so paranoid about our things being stolen. And it took forever to figure out why the darn doors wouldn’t lock! Not with the fob, not with the door locks. One thing I do like about the fob is that it is super easy to detach the rest of our keys for valet parking, that frequently comes in handy. I don’t like that I don’t have to remove the keys to turn off the car. There was at least 3 times I left the car running while I was shopping when we first got it. Also, and I will admit this more more me than the fob, I realized forgot something in the house right after pulling out of the driveway so pulled in, grabbed my house keys on the fob, and jumped out to run into the house. Without turning the car off or putting it in park. If our trash can wasn’t there the vehicle would have ended up in the garage via the garage door and support. With a regular key I would have been forced to turn off the car, which in turn would have made me put it in park. Also like that the passenger can access/lock the glove compartment without having to stop the car. This especially come ins handy for our electronics while pulling up to valet parking and not having to make them wait on us. My son and I met my guy at his place, then the three of us rode to Thanksgiving dinner at his moms in his car. When we returned to his house, 3 hours later- my car was still running in the driveway!! The FOB was in my purse 30 minutes away and the dang thing kept running I thought it should shut off if I got out of range! Imagine had I driven somewhere and left purse in the garage, turned the car off, and had no FOB to turn it back on I still love my FOB
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Post by dewryce on Jan 7, 2019 19:30:32 GMT
FuzzyMutt, at least I am in good company My car has an eco setting where it will turn the car off and the air down if you are in idle for a certain amount of time. I’m thankful when I left my key with DH that I was drove home 2 minutes away and this wasn’t an issue. Can you imagine the car turning off at a light and you can’t turn it back on?
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jan 7, 2019 19:42:38 GMT
FuzzyMutt , at least I am in good company My car has an eco setting where it will turn the car off and the air down if you are in idle for a certain amount of time. I’m thankful when I left my key with DH that I was drove home 2 minutes away and this wasn’t an issue. Can you imagine the car turning off at a light and you can’t turn it back on? That would be a nightmare!! I just couldn't imagine that the car would continue running outside of range of the key.. but I suppose that would be what would keep your DH from a standstill in traffic.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 7, 2019 20:08:59 GMT
My current car and my last one both have/had the fob with push button start. I’m not sure if the current one will lock with a fob inside but the old one did, which I learned the hard way. When I was out shopping at night with a three year old, and DH was out of town, and my cell was in my purse on the front seat. I opened the front door, threw my purchases and my purse on the seat, closed the door and went to put DD in her car seat only the doors all locked behind me when I shut the door. Which had never, ever happened before any of the dozens of times I had done that exact same thing at home. So I ended up going into the store and using their phone to call DH who was enroute to our hunting cabin because his was the only phone number I could remember off the top of my head anymore. He had to call several people before he could find someone who was home who could come rescue us. In hindsight, I should have just asked him to pull over and give me the phone numbers out of his phone so I could call them myself from the store, but in all honesty I was a bit panicked and not thinking too clearly. I hadn’t owned the car all that long and didn’t have the passcode for the door locks memorized yet, otherwise that would have been the easy answer. So the lessons learned were: 1) don’t throw your purse with your phone inside into the car and shut the door; 2) don’t carry your phone in your purse (I now *always* have it either in my coat or sweatshirt pocket so it is on my person); and 3) it’s a good idea to have at least a few key people’s phone numbers memorized, you know, like we used to do in the olden days so you can call someone in an emergency. And 4) either memorize the passcode for the door or have it saved somewhere in your phone so if your key fob does somehow get locked inside, you can open the door yourself with the code. Actually, my current car can be unlocked with an app on my phone, so that last one doesn’t really apply anymore except if the battery in your key fob goes dead.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jan 7, 2019 21:13:45 GMT
I have a key for my 2003 Golf. I have a system and I'm very happy with it. I've never locked myself in or out, never had a problem with it. DH's new car has a fob but the range is so short that he can unlock the passenger door for me, walk round the front of the car to get to the driver's door, and the dratted thing locks. If I move, the alarm goes off with me inside it. So rather than doing that, he doesn't unlock it at all and makes me stand by my door like a lemon in the rain and wind while he faffs around in the boot. I don't like fobs, and when my beloved car finally needs replacing, I'm going to need a lot of adjusting. As a tangent I just have to say I love how you Brits talk. Happy to have made you smile! There's plenty more where that came from.
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Post by mlynn on Jan 7, 2019 23:03:21 GMT
I love having a fob. My last two cars have had both fob and number pad. I have not read the whole thread, but one advantage I find is locating my car if I am not sure where I am parked or at a large mall where you may exit from a different doorway than you entered. Another thing I like is that I can unlock the vehicle before I get to it - you know, in case it is dark or there are potential shady characters around.
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Post by librarylady on Jan 24, 2019 17:57:59 GMT
Another sister, another fob story.
Sister and DD went to store. Sister needed to stay in car to finish ?? When she was ready to get out, door would not open because fob was not near and DD was in Costco shopping. My sister had to wait. She texted DD but the DD would not come rescue her until she was finished shopping.
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janeinbama
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Post by janeinbama on Jan 24, 2019 20:02:24 GMT
I have a key for my 2003 Golf. I have a system and I'm very happy with it. I've never locked myself in or out, never had a problem with it. DH's new car has a fob but the range is so short that he can unlock the passenger door for me, walk round the front of the car to get to the driver's door, and the dratted thing locks. If I move, the alarm goes off with me inside it. So rather than doing that, he doesn't unlock it at all and makes me stand by my door like a lemon in the rain and wind while he faffs around in the boot. I don't like fobs, and when my beloved car finally needs replacing, I'm going to need a lot of adjusting. I love my fob and now I want to be a lemon in the rain while DH faffs around in the boot!!! When the battery runs low it is annoying to lock/unlock car. I have also had issues with leather purses with a flap. Fob won't work between 2 layers of a good leather purse.
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Post by likescarrots on Jan 24, 2019 20:07:25 GMT
I would never leave a key locked in the car so this is not a problem for me. I have a fob, it stays in my purse (or rarely my pocket if I'm w/o purse) at all times. My car also will not lock if the fob is inside. My trunk gets angry if the fob is in it, sometimes if I lean in with my purse it will start beeping, and I've read other people with my car didn't realize this and couldn't figure out why the trunk wouldn't stay closed.
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Post by katlady on Jan 24, 2019 21:15:51 GMT
Another sister, another fob story. Sister and DD went to store. Sister needed to stay in car to finish ?? When she was ready to get out, door would not open because fob was not near and DD was in Costco shopping. My sister had to wait. She texted DD but the DD would not come rescue her until she was finished shopping. That sounds dangerous to me, not being to get out of a car. Are you sure the security system on the car is not faulty? The unlock door button on the inside of the car doesn't work?
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Post by librarylady on Jan 24, 2019 21:30:14 GMT
Another sister, another fob story. Sister and DD went to store. Sister needed to stay in car to finish ?? When she was ready to get out, door would not open because fob was not near and DD was in Costco shopping. My sister had to wait. She texted DD but the DD would not come rescue her until she was finished shopping. That sounds dangerous to me, not being to get out of a car. Are you sure the security system on the car is not faulty? The unlock door button on the inside of the car doesn't work? I have no idea as to the answer to your questions. My sister who was locked inside the car and angry 'cause her DD just kept shopping sent a text and said she was glad it was not a summer day. I imagine the situation won't be repeated, if you know what I mean.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jan 24, 2019 22:33:24 GMT
My current car and my last one both have/had the fob with push button start. I’m not sure if the current one will lock with a fob inside but the old one did, which I learned the hard way. When I was out shopping at night with a three year old, and DH was out of town, and my cell was in my purse on the front seat. I opened the front door, threw my purchases and my purse on the seat, closed the door and went to put DD in her car seat only the doors all locked behind me when I shut the door. Which had never, ever happened before any of the dozens of times I had done that exact same thing at home. So I ended up going into the store and using their phone to call DH who was enroute to our hunting cabin because his was the only phone number I could remember off the top of my head anymore. He had to call several people before he could find someone who was home who could come rescue us. In hindsight, I should have just asked him to pull over and give me the phone numbers out of his phone so I could call them myself from the store, but in all honesty I was a bit panicked and not thinking too clearly. I hadn’t owned the car all that long and didn’t have the passcode for the door locks memorized yet, otherwise that would have been the easy answer. So the lessons learned were: 1) don’t throw your purse with your phone inside into the car and shut the door; 2) don’t carry your phone in your purse (I now *always* have it either in my coat or sweatshirt pocket so it is on my person); and 3) it’s a good idea to have at least a few key people’s phone numbers memorized, you know, like we used to do in the olden days so you can call someone in an emergency. And 4) either memorize the passcode for the door or have it saved somewhere in your phone so if your key fob does somehow get locked inside, you can open the door yourself with the code. Actually, my current car can be unlocked with an app on my phone, so that last one doesn’t really apply anymore except if the battery in your key fob goes dead. Something very similar happened to me a long time ago. I was putting my kid in his car seat in the back of my car (it was a Mazda Protege if that matters...) I usually would toss my keys in his lap while I buckled his seat in to keep him entertained for a few seconds. I shut the door and he managed to hit the door lock! In retrospect, it was only a matter of time til that happened. It was 2002 and my first time having anything other than two literal keys for my car. So.. my baby was locked, in the car, with the keys, but way too young to unlock it intentionally (he was about 6 months old.) Luckily I had a sun roof that was popped a little bit and someone else in the parking lot had something in their car we could use to fish them out. Life lessons alright! Glad you were able to come up with a way to get in your car safely!
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jan 24, 2019 22:36:19 GMT
Another sister, another fob story. Sister and DD went to store. Sister needed to stay in car to finish ?? When she was ready to get out, door would not open because fob was not near and DD was in Costco shopping. My sister had to wait. She texted DD but the DD would not come rescue her until she was finished shopping. That sounds dangerous to me, not being to get out of a car. Are you sure the security system on the car is not faulty? The unlock door button on the inside of the car doesn't work? I'm surprised she couldn't use the door handle/lock button to get out. Cars I've had, (including current car) the door lock button inside works, and if you gently pull the handle, the door unlocks. As great as that sounds... the cars I've had... when you do that- the dang alert/alarm thing goes off and it's embarrassing.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jan 24, 2019 22:41:12 GMT
My vehicle won’t lock with the fob in it. Learned this the hard way when we were on a trip out of town and had purposefully packed our second fob. It was buried in luggage under tons of stuff in the back of the SUV with a bike mounted on the back. Wanted to go shopping, but was so paranoid about our things being stolen. And it took forever to figure out why the darn doors wouldn’t lock! Not with the fob, not with the door locks. One thing I do like about the fob is that it is super easy to detach the rest of our keys for valet parking, that frequently comes in handy. I don’t like that I don’t have to remove the keys to turn off the car. There was at least 3 times I left the car running while I was shopping when we first got it. Also, and I will admit this more more me than the fob, I realized forgot something in the house right after pulling out of the driveway so pulled in, grabbed my house keys on the fob, and jumped out to run into the house. Without turning the car off or putting it in park. If our trash can wasn’t there the vehicle would have ended up in the garage via the garage door and support. With a regular key I would have been forced to turn off the car, which in turn would have made me put it in park. Also like that the passenger can access/lock the glove compartment without having to stop the car. This especially come ins handy for our electronics while pulling up to valet parking and not having to make them wait on us. My son and I met my guy at his place, then the three of us rode to Thanksgiving dinner at his moms in his car. When we returned to his house, 3 hours later- my car was still running in the driveway!! The FOB was in my purse 30 minutes away and the dang thing kept running I thought it should shut off if I got out of range! Imagine had I driven somewhere and left purse in the garage, turned the car off, and had no FOB to turn it back on I still love my FOB So glad this floated to the top! Sooo I just had the pleasure of a snow storm, and so I started my car (actual start, not remote start) to warm it up and left it running. I hopped out to scrape some ice and had to go upstairs. I still had my purse on my arm and I set it on the counter. Ran back downstairs to take the recycling and dog out, put the dog up, and went back to my car to leave. Put it in reverse. Looked down, and it displayed "no remote in vehicle." Soooo after talking about this a few weeks ago, I decided to do an experiment. I shut it off. It then displayed "no remote- press brake to restart." I put my foot on the brake, and it restarted, but started dinging and displaying "no remote." I would think it would ding and display no remote the first time! Hahahaha!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 24, 2019 22:54:45 GMT
Something very similar happened to me a long time ago. I was putting my kid in his car seat in the back of my car (it was a Mazda Protege if that matters...) I usually would toss my keys in his lap while I buckled his seat in to keep him entertained for a few seconds. I shut the door and he managed to hit the door lock! In retrospect, it was only a matter of time til that happened. It was 2002 and my first time having anything other than two literal keys for my car. So.. my baby was locked, in the car, with the keys, but way too young to unlock it intentionally (he was about 6 months old.) Luckily I had a sun roof that was popped a little bit and someone else in the parking lot had something in their car we could use to fish them out. Life lessons alright! Glad you were able to come up with a way to get in your car safely! I can see how a little kid could easily push a button on the fob and lock it, etc. How scary to have your little one locked in and to be too young to be able to understand! In my case, it might have helped somewhat if my kid would have been inside the car because she was three at the time and at least would have been able to hit the button on the door to unlock it. As it was, we were BOTH locked out with my purse, keys and phone locked IN. Definitely a lesson well learned!
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kelly8875
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Post by kelly8875 on Jan 25, 2019 2:13:05 GMT
My car won’t lock with the fob inside it. I also just leave the fob in my purse and never use it. I walk up to the door, grab the handle and it unlocks if I have my purse/fob with me. I sit down, and push the start button. I get out, and touch the door handle to lock and walk away.
I literally don’t even have a key...just a fob.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 25, 2019 16:23:55 GMT
My car won’t lock with the fob inside it. I also just leave the fob in my purse and never use it. I walk up to the door, grab the handle and it unlocks if I have my purse/fob with me. I sit down, and push the start button. I get out, and touch the door handle to lock and walk away. I literally don’t even have a key...just a fob. My car doors all automatically lock as soon as I put the car into gear, and obviously the fob is in the car at the time. I think it could also be a safety issue for the car to not lock with the fob inside when you want it to, if you happened to be stopped in an unsafe area and wanted to keep someone out.
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Post by katlady on Jan 25, 2019 17:37:18 GMT
My car won’t lock with the fob inside it. I also just leave the fob in my purse and never use it. I walk up to the door, grab the handle and it unlocks if I have my purse/fob with me. I sit down, and push the start button. I get out, and touch the door handle to lock and walk away. I literally don’t even have a key...just a fob. My car doors all automatically lock as soon as I put the car into gear, and obviously the fob is in the car at the time. I think it could also be a safety issue for the car to not lock with the fob inside when you want it to, if you happened to be stopped in an unsafe area and wanted to keep someone out. For my car, it depends on which button I press. If I am standing outside my car, trying to push the button on my door handle, the car will not lock if the key fob is inside. If I am sitting inside my car, with the key fob in my hand, I can press the "lock" button on the inside of my door handle and the door will lock. But one thing I hate about my lock is that I if I am sitting inside my car with the doors locked, and then I go to start my car, I have to unlock the door first or my alarm will go off. PITA!
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Jan 25, 2019 17:51:42 GMT
DH's new car has a fob but the range is so short that he can unlock the passenger door for me, walk round the front of the car to get to the driver's door, and the dratted thing locks. RedSquirrelUK I bet if you google that you'll find a solution so that he'll have a larger range and can walk around the car to get in without it locking - cause that's freakin ridiculous that it's that short of a range! I was googling something about my car or fob or something or another and discovered there's a wide variety of things that can be set/changed if you just know how. For mine I wanted the back doors to unlock when I clicked my unlock button. I googled it and found a way to set it to do that. It involved turning the headlights on and off a few times and a few other weird things but it actually worked! Google and/or youtube the problem and you might get lucky and find a way to change the setting!
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Post by walkerdill on Jan 25, 2019 18:06:31 GMT
I just bought a new car last weekend and its my first key fob. I can unfortunately lock my keys in the car. I still need the actual key to start the engine but hey I have a back up camera which I never had before! I'm moving on up s-l-o-w-l-y. lol
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