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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / October 2004Electronic Key Fobs (ot)
Heard a neat deal on the radio yesterday...... Did you know.... A GM electronic key fob (door lock, unlock, alarm) will work over a phone, and cellphone? So, if you lock your keys in the car, you can call home on your cell phone and have your spouse (or significant other (or perpetual unwed mother applicant) grab the spare key ring and push the button next to a phone and unlock your car door. Pretty neat, huh? I thought about thieves, but they would have to have your spare key set and cell phone number, so that is pretty remote (pun intended)... Jeff (Danger....Danger Will Robinson!) Rice Don't believe it until you try it. Loy > Heard a neat deal on the radio yesterday...... > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > cell phone number, so that is pretty remote (pun intended)... > Jeff (Danger....Danger Will Robinson!) Rice On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:44:20 -0500, you wrote: >Don't believe it until you try it. > >Loy daughter has a 97 GM fob, locks unlocks etc.. she walks through a parking lot, pushing the UNLOCK button, and on the NEW cars, that sets off the panic alarms.. --Shiva-- > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:44:20 -0500, you wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > she walks through a parking lot, pushing the UNLOCK button, and > on the NEW cars, that sets off the panic alarms.. I'm waiting for the day I hear of a mechanic losing a finger or two while working under the hood of a car that has a remote starter. Someone could have a similar unit in a car nearby, and hit their key fob, and start both cars. Craig. > --Shiva-- It would be nice if new cars had a secondary battery to run the clock and other stuff, then you could disconnect the main one. Or install a Green Switch" Karl > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:44:20 -0500, you wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > --Shiva-- > It would be nice if new cars had a secondary battery to run the clock > and other stuff, then you could disconnect the main one. > > Or install a Green Switch" Is this for 'long term' storage? If it is, I have seen an ad somewhere for a solar trickle charger that you place in your garage window that is about the size of a licence plate. And it has two wires that you hook up to your battery that keeps it at full charge. Craig. > Karl > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> > --Shiva-- Harbor Freight has those solar chargers for about $10 "Craig Parslow" wrote... > Is this for 'long term' storage? If it is, I have seen an ad somewhere > for a solar trickle charger that you place in your garage window that is > about the size of a licence plate. And it has two wires that you hook up > to your battery that keeps it at full charge. > > It would be nice if new cars had a secondary battery to run the clock > > and other stuff, then you could disconnect the main one. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Craig. No, Craig. I was thinking more along the lines of when you have to do something on a modern car which involves disconnecting it, like getting access to something or changing the battery. On some cars, the radio loses station settings and the clock goes to 18:88. This may apply when someone puts a new (or newer) radio in a Studebaker. Kaarl I just run a couple of wires to a battery pack before disconnecting the main battery. Cheap and easy fix: Warning - polarity (Plus and Minus) is important. If you can't figure out how to determine which is which, don't try this at home kids. Take an old cigarette lighter accessory and clip the wires. Attach the wires to a 9V battery connector. Plug the ciggy liter thingie into the obvious place. Attach a 9V battery to the other obvious place. R&R the big battery 9V is enough input for most "memory" radios. Mark (larnin' from Gord) Dunning > > > It would be nice if new cars had a secondary battery to run the clock > > > and other stuff, then you could disconnect the main one. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I just run a couple of wires to a battery pack before disconnecting > the main battery. As a former Buyer, Development Engineer, Instructor, Program Manager (Techinal)Safety Officer, & Test Engineer at a small Lithium / Thionyl-Chloride battery firm, I feel I can check polarity OK, but your advice is good - things do go BOOM! (I was in charge of the intentional BOOMS during comparative testing.) (In my poorer days I took a good cell from a bad car battery to replace the bad cell in mine. Glad it was 6 VT) One battery run I had resulted in the delivered custom batteries costing the customer $10K each, but the device it was to power failed the tests! Karl > Cheap and easy fix: > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups > ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- > No, Craig. I was thinking more along the lines of when you have to do > something on a modern car which involves disconnecting it, like > getting access to something or changing the battery. On some cars, the > radio loses station settings and the clock goes to 18:88. > This may apply when someone puts a new (or newer) radio in a > Studebaker. Seems to me IIRC, a GM shop manual advises the use of a 6V latern battery for a simple R&R battery job for that reason. Craig. One of the things that I don't like on electronic key fobs is that the buttons aren't in the same positions on different manufacturers fobs. For example, we currently have two 2001 cars with remotes. The lock/unlock function buttons are in opposite places on the two. This is a nuisance in the dark. Maybe this is like automatic shift patterns where they will get to a standardized pattern in time. Gary L. Studebaker Drivers Club Director - Northeast Zone 36 year member of Studebaker Drivers Club, Inc. >I'm waiting for the day I hear of a mechanic losing a finger or two while >working under the hood of a car that has a remote starter. Reminds me of when I was selling cars and a lady came in and said that she had been all over looking for a used car with remote start and nobody had one. I pointed to our used car and said, "Which one do you want?" She bought a car from me and $150 later it had remote start and remote entry (door locks). I guess that none of the other used car salesmen were smart enough to figure this out <G>. Gary L. 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