a scary keyless entry experience

[Nitemare]

I have a black honda accord and these things are fairly rare as you all know. My wife was working this past weekend and then went out in to the parking lot to get in the car. The keyless entry worked fine, so she opened the door and got in the car and noticed a cell phone holder in the middle(We do not own nor would we care to own a cell phone).

The keyless entry had worked on another black honda accord. The scary part is we have at least a dozen of these cars where I work and who is to say that theirs will work on mine or leave it unlocked.

Anyone know the rarity of the keyless entry frequencies matching?

 

[iamme]

whoa, that is kinda scary.

i wonder if the dealer would do anything for you.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

yea that is scary. i was walking to my car in the mall's parking lot and decided to play with my "Panic" button. Since i wasn't driving the toyota anyways, i wanted to see if my keyless pad would work on another car. Behold!!! it actually work, but the other car was like a crown vic or something?! :Q

 

[HiTek21]

what brand of keyless entry setup do you have or is it a honda brand system?

 

[cressida]

yes ... I was in Dallas airport one time and I was looking for my car and pressing the remote. I heard the beep I usually hear. I kept following it and got closer and closer and didn't see my car, then I finally got up to an old 4runner and I was locking it and unlocking it with my remote.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: HiTek21
what brand of keyless entry setup do you have or is it a honda brand system?

I heard about something very similar.Shop manager tells worker to go outside the shop and bring a green Lincoln in for service. Guy gets green Lincoln, services it and puts it back outside.
Sometime later the owner of the other green Lincoln comes into the shop and wants to know why his car hasn't been serviced yet.
The two cars were parked a row away from eah other.

 

[Wingznut]

When I was a mechanic, I had to do some work on the dash of a red '95 Dodge pickup... It was easy enough that I could do it in the parking lot, instead of pulling it inside.

I walk out, unlock the truck WITH THE KEY, and begin working on it.... Well, until the owner showed up. Turns out I did have the right key, but the wrong truck.

The key worked in both trucks!



It's the same with keyless entry. Although there are A LOT of codes, there aren't an infinite amount. You (and I) may never run into the same issue again.

 

[MrBond]

Hey, with all those hondas, its bound to happen.

With the older IR style keyless entry, I think there was a thing for the palmos that would capture and record the IR signals. You could sit in the parking lot, grab someones code when they lock their car, then unlock it yourself.

It'd be kind of neat if I could get keyless entry on my cell phone. That'd be the coolest, I'd feel like a secret agent every time I got into the car

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: HiTek21
what brand of keyless entry setup do you have or is it a honda brand system?

OEM equipment on a new honda

 

[Crappopotamus]

woah kinda scary.

 

[oboegoddess]

I've heard this happen with keys before too, at the grocery store with my cousins car and the mall with a friends car.