I hate FOBs

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Made a key rack, in the shape of a house key, in 7th grade wood shop class. My parents were always misplacing their keys, that solved it.

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Very useful here on Staten Island with all parking lots and all the cars here look the same. Press the red button, listen for horn, find car. Annoy everybody standing around said car.

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see now with all this key fob and panic button talkā€¦you guys jinxed me. went to pick up meds for my 90-year-old mom. getting out of my truck somehow I must have accidently hit the panic button on something. that has not happened in years, and it was usually on one of the kidā€™s vehicles that I had to move. :laughing:

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Iā€™ve set the panic alarm off by accident plenty of times in my new Ram truck. Itā€™s way too sensitive. The one for my wifeā€™s Solara is also too sensitive. All it take is some loose change in the pocket with the fobs. The kids Chevy is not a problem, its a smaller button and smaller fob.

As far as I am concerned the panic button is something I would prefer to live without. Like a car alarm, I donā€™t need it. Iā€™ve never had a car stolen, and I certainly have no use for a car that honks at the slight touch of a button thatā€™s in my pocket. Nobody pays attention to a car alarm, nobody ever did. This is a ā€œfaultā€, not a ā€œfeatureā€. The only thing is does for me is get me a slightly lower insurance premium.

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Maybe the women you know, but my wife certainly does NOT appreciate the alarm function or the panic button. In fact, she hates it so much she has taken the fob off and uses just the regular plain old key for her 08 Solara. This is not an option in my new Ram truck. It has keyless entry AND starting. And unlike my old car, there is no place to put the fob in the dash. I have to carry it.

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What is a coin and what do you use it for?

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I havenā€™t had one apart except to change batteries but if they are like garage remotes, it might be not that hard to disable that particular button. Maybe a small piece of tape between the contacts would do. If it is that irritating. Might want to check with your lawyer though first.

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I had a mini Cooper and constantly triggered the rear hatch release whenever I kept that fob in my pocket.

I finally complained about it and they were able to reprogram the remote in such a way that I had to press a second button in conjunction with the trunk release to activate it. That solved the problem.

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Back in the 80ā€™s a good friend of mine who is very petite was accosted in a mall parking lot (in a so called safe suburban area). She was taken somewhere and raped for hours. If she had a key fob with a panic button it most likely would have attracted unwanted attention and the perpetrator would probably have fled. It certainly would have been nice for her to have the option to attract attention from others.

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A few years back my dental receptionist told a guy attempting to assault her in the Walmart lot. She pulled out her sig and he ran away. Said you wouldnā€™t believe how many women are at the range now. Just another option. They make a lot of noise too when they go off.

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