Ditto, except with a Volvo... :-)
Maybe - although I suppose they perhaps don't check that the vehicle is moving, because it might be advantageous to have them deploy if the vehicle is hit by something else even when stationary.
Hi Put your hand up inside the drivers side front wheel well (outside the car) if you feel a multiplug that's your problem. Some BM's and Rover's had a diagnostic socket in this position.(won't say anymore but you can do allkinds of things if you can reach it). Another place to look is drivers door inside the door is an inertia switch on some models which like the rubber mallet ploy will unlock the drivers door if activated.(a slap on the outer door front end near bottom will verify this) Finally I have had personal experience of similar when the harness has rotted under the drivers carpeting and shorted out after valeting. The water collects in the plastic wiring tray and if you rock the car all kinds of things happen, (seats move,doors lock,a bit like Xfiles).Or remove the rear seat and check for sweet wrappers around the harness and cpu's.(not all models) HTH CJ
Google for "bump key". All tumbler type locks can be opened without a trace.
Would that not require a laptop and lead though, to be able to access the cars software?
Dave, how good is your keyfob? Could you maybe have pressed it by accident when you went back in the house? I know my VW can work for literally hundreds of yards* and from inside my house with no problem as I discovered one afternoon when I went out to the car to find all the windows down. The fob had been in my trouser pocket and was obviously being pushed against something and operating!!
But then opening the door sets off the alarm...
Unlikely as I take things out of my pockets first thing after getting home. I hang up the keys.
If this was a common problem (for me) I'd expect to often find the car unlocked. The button on the key fob requires a pretty hard press too. Unlike the aftermarket one (Viper) on my other car.
Not mine.
You need a computer and the appropriate software to do 'allkinds'.
I'll give that a try.
My 03 reg Kangoo van sometimes does that, click the fob, hear the clunk - but the drivers door button doesn't go down, leaving it unlocked. Sometimes the reverse happens, it doesn't unlock. I check it now every time just to make sure.
AAMOI have you actually tried one? Do they work as well as is said?
Hi No such luck you jack in at the relevant ecu The point under the wing is a remote input point.now removed after bmw/rover realised the implications of leaving a 12v feed and direct access to "Key" circuits in such a silly place.
CJ
Hi No you dont..just a piece of wire. CJ
No reaction.
I have not tried one. But I think I will make one to open a lock that I don't have a key for. Once it's open I will be able to take the lock apart.
Onetap wrote on Aug 30, 2010:
On a slightly similar note, I stopped outside a super-market in France earlier this year, and was disconcerted to find I couldn't lock the car using the remote. I assumed the control system on the car, or the key was mishaving and was wondering what to do about it when a French woman who'd been watching came up and said that this often happened here and explained vaguely that it was something to do with radio signals, gesturing towards the super-market building.
I assumed at the time it was an accidental side effect of some kind of security system used in the super-market, but now I wonder if it was in fact being deliberately jammed by somone
Jamming but possibly not intentional by some nearby scroat. There are various reports of certain carparks in this country where the radio based remote lock/unlock on some makes/models of cars doesn't work. IIRC this is normally down to a nearby radio transmiter using the same or close carriers to that of the remote. Car recievers can also be pretty poor at rejecting strong nearby signals.
I can imagine the response in your neighbours house; "Dave's been at the cheap booze again, he's out in the street pounding on his car with a rubber mallet."
:o)
I had a furtive look round before doing it. But used my hand rather than a mallet. An almost Basil Fawlty moment.
Even if it did, it would still have set off the alarm in my case. Just to be sure I tried this again yesterday - if you unlock the car with the key (which operates the central locking) after locking it with the remote, the alarm sounds as soon as a door is opened.
: > > wrote: : > >
: > >> So whoever it was had a means of opening the car without any signs : > >> being left. : > >
: > > Google for "bump key". All tumbler type locks can be opened without a : > > trace. : : > AAMOI have you actually tried one? Do they work as well as is said? : : Even if it did, it would still have set off the alarm in my case. Just to : be sure I tried this again yesterday - if you unlock the car with the key : (which operates the central locking) after locking it with the remote, the : alarm sounds as soon as a door is opened. :
Hmm, do BMWs use some form of 'emergency' method of code entry were the remote has stopped working, I know that some manufactures use(d) the number, direction and order of turns of the door key in the barrel IYSWIM, if so could this have become compromised - does the dealer have a record of their customers codes for example?
So long as you didn't beat it with a tree branch ...
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