I hope you do not have a push button start. if you do it would be like leaving the key in the ignition. how do you keep your doors locked with the fob in the trunk? even if you lock your doors and walk away someone can walk by and just open the door on a lot of vehicles with the fob that close.
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Criminals knowhere we stick the magnetic keytainers. I have found several.
I have a ring of 20+ keys. All kinds. (I don’t know the origin.)
Over the years have opened a number of locked vehicles and homes using a key that fits the keyhole and finessing the key.
Have not tried vehicles in the last 10 years.
It’s my Pontiac. Key start. Fob to lock/unlock/remote start. No problem. For the Acura though, no such luck so I follow extreme measures to make sure no fob is lost. Key for emergency entrance is all. If you really have to you can prevent the problem in the first place. Maybe foil would work if I had a third fob. Don’t know, don’t care at this point.
What is wrong with push-button start?
Our hidden electronic fob is electronicallyvell-shielded and was inside an ALTOIDS Curiously Strong Mints tin.
Sounds very suspicious.
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Breaking windows is a lot more fun. 
That day was a nightmare. My wife had the car before we got married and, unbeknownst to me, it had an aftermarket alarm. I fumbled around with a toggle switch below the dash (“Let’s see…I guess that’s what this is for?”). I got the alarm to go off somehow, but there was something goofy about it. When you closed the door, either the alarm would start again, or the engine would die…something. I don’t remember. I do remember I wound up driving that car 30 miles in the rain with no driver side rear window and the driver side door propped ajar with my left foot. This was in the days before smartphones or rural internet at poor people’s houses (read yours truly at that particular point in time), so I wound up calling shops that install aftermarket alarms when I got the car back home. I eventually got enough info to reset the alarm. Then I called around looking for a shop that could replace that window ASAP.
Pretty sure I had issues with that alarm again when I replaced the battery at some point. I wound up disabling it altogether eventually. There was some sequence you had to go through…key on, toggle switch, seems like there was something else underhood, rub your stomach, pat your head at the same time…
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One told of going back into the house to get a breakfast bar, leaving her car running. I saw a guy run out of the convenience store, yelling at his car, which he had left running the whole time, buying gas. I was unsympathetic.
Someone stole my pickup about 10 years ago; left another old Toyota pickup behind (police wouldn’t let me take it as a swap). They found it on the other side of town a week later. That’s my only motorized vehicle and I have no friends so it got towed, costing me $300, so I advise stealees to prepare to pick up their car when it gets found.
David Letterman’s top 10 good things about a Yugo included, ‘No one will steal it.’
Some people are vandals: they want to break things, make you hurt.
I remove the coil wire, keep it in a plastic jar inside my home.
Son of friends of ours had his 2000 Honda Accord stolen from a parking garage either at or near the University of Washington, found as just a bare shell later. Luckily he doesn’t really need a car to get to work and back.
A few years ago someone stole the Hyundai Sonata belonging to a co-workers son in law from the parking lot of the children’s hospital in Albuquerque while the family was with their youngest battling cancer. When they were allowed to take him home for awhile they found their car was gone. Did get it back eventuall with no damage but it was a low blow.
But such is a sin.
Well, as a tophat and tailed chimney sweep, I was a second story man.
I never lock my 2018 Versa because it’s a cheap car with a manual transmission, and I live in a low crime area. The car uses an old fashioned non electronic key so I keep a spare key taped to the back of the license plate. Nice to not worry about locking the house or the car.
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That just does not make any sense at all . You are just making it easier for someone to take something . People who are prone to theft and mayhem don’t have boundaries.
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Was nice when the Ford Expeditiohad a door keypad.
The housentrances have keypad locks. Nice not having to find keys.
But I have not tried to pick them.
Our sign: [Protected by Mr. Smith & Mr. Wesson]
maybe it’s just me, but a sign like that just tells me you have firearms that I could steal.
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I suppose it depends on where you live. I’ve lived in the same place for 38 years and have never locked my house or car.
Yes. That is why it is not posted.
@Robert-Gift Why did you give a like to what is obviously Spam by hrh ?
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Look, even if I had a 30 year old car with rust and body damage, that barely ran, I’d still keep the doors locked when it’s not in use. Why? Because I don’t want some transient to sleep in it, and perhaps leave behind bodily fluids, unpleasant odors, etc. It’s just common sense that you keep your car locked when it’s not in use, just like you keep tools and equipment locked and put away when they aren’t in use.
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