# Better area to attach an Hillman magnetic key holder **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945 "2023-12-02T02:29:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheWonderful90s](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thewonderful90s/32/29584_2.png) [@TheWonderful90s](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TheWonderful90s)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/21 "2023-12-03T03:53:29Z")
Found out a car had one when I drove though some deep snow in the driveway. I don’t see why putting it on top of the front or rear subframe would be bad. It wouldn’t get knocked off by snow that way. ---
**Author:** ![Andy-Ke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/andy-ke/32/41664_2.png) [@Andy-Ke](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Andy-Ke)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/22 "2023-12-03T22:58:37Z")
Getting the door open is definitely a positive. Not starting the car is another issue. There are probably some ways around that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/23 "2023-12-03T23:40:03Z")
If your car will not allow locking the doors with a fob inside, might be able to wrap it in foil. Never tried it. We use both fobs on that car. ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/24 "2023-12-04T00:16:04Z")
> [@bing](#): > > If your car will not allow locking the doors with a fob inside, might be able to wrap it in foil. Wrapping the fob in foil works quite well. ---
**Author:** ![Andy-Ke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/andy-ke/32/41664_2.png) [@Andy-Ke](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Andy-Ke)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/25 "2023-12-04T01:40:39Z")
The solution was kind of simple. A sandwich bag over the key holder. ![20231203_170946](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/2/3/23588994124c7a56fe37cf3a702e5ab08da60bbb.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Robert-Gift](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/robert-gift/32/356_2.png) [@Robert-Gift](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Robert-Gift)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/26 "2023-12-30T19:39:42Z")
> [@Andy-Ke](#): > > _The solution was kind of simple. A sandwich bag over the key holder._ The bag plastic between the Keytainer™ magnets and vehicle metal may make it adhere less. Criminals knowhere these are likely hidden. I hid a key in themergencyehicle’s gas door under the metal which attaches door to hinge. No one found it. Thelectrical tape in which the key was wrapped made it easily removed. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 3:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/27 "2023-12-31T03:09:54Z")
I have a good place. I’m not going to advertise it. A friend who worked as a cop in a small town (Maquoketa, IA) in the early '70s said his most-common call was opening the cars of people who had locked the keys inside. He slim-jimmed them. Can you do that anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Robert-Gift](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/robert-gift/32/356_2.png) [@Robert-Gift](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Robert-Gift)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945/28 "2023-12-31T17:50:43Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > _I have a good place. I’m not going to advertise it. A friend who worked as a cop in a small town (Maquoketa, IA) in the early '70s said his most-common call was opening the cars of people who had locked the keys inside. He slim-jimmed them. Can you do that anymore?_ A few years ago I used a coat hanger to unlock a woman’s car. Now cannot remember how I did it. Could not hook and pull the lock button. Another time I used a key fromany keys on a key ring I have. The key opened the door but would noturn the igniti **on**. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/better-area-to-attach-an-hillman-magnetic-key-holder/193945.md?page=1)