GenVibe - Community for Pontiac Vibe Enthusiasts

For those of you who have a car that can be unlocked by that remote button on your key ring: if you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, and you don't have "OnStar," here's your answer to the problem! If someone has access to the spare remote at your home, call on your cell phone (or borrow one from someone if the cell phone is locked in the car too)! Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Have someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk, or have the "horn" signal go off, or whatever)!Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone! Distance doesn't seem to be a factor.

That's pretty cool. Did you figure that out because you were curious or because you had to?

Friend of mine email me this trick few days ago. I have not try it this yet but someday I will. And I don't see why not to share it to all you. Just in case, if you locked out of your car.....Josh

I don't believe it. There's no way!BS alert.

I don't think it's possible either. I know an inductive amplifier can pick up the rf interference from the remote, but a regular telephone??? I think it's highly doubtful that it will work especially since cell connections inherently have a lot of excess digital noise in the first place....but if I have to eat my own words, i do have the appetite.

Quote, originally posted by GMJAP »I don't believe it. There's no way!BS alert.Give it a shot and prove it doesn't work. I find it hard to believe, but then I think there is a possibility if the signal passses through the phones. Can't hurt to give it a shot!

anyone try it yet????

If it DOES work how cool! I wonder if GPS phones are the key here... He said he tried it.Wonder if an old bag phone will work too! Kidding...

The trick here is NOT to try in when the car is in your driveway. Drive a mile away or so, to ensure you don't just have a strong remote signal. The stock remote on both the Vibe and G6 have amazed me at times with how far away they can transmit from...I'll have to try this sometime...

Theres no way in heck it could ever possibly work.Here we go:http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

thus the reason it was probably in the humor forum!! i knew it wouldnt work, i didn't even consider it.

Very nice find. I wondering that Mythbuster try this trick.... I know that this false since I received from email....Later...

I totally failed to notice the fact it was in the humor forum.

Here's another odd way to get back in your car... I read the Prius owner's manual, and in there Toyota acutally recommends breaking out the window in the event of an electical failure. Came with a warning to break the smallest, cheapest-to-replace window possible, and be careful as to not cut yourself. I wish I still had the pdf, that was rather amusing.

anyone tried it yet???

doubt anyone is going to.Quote, originally posted by GMJAP »http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

My boss told me about this. He's got a Vibe too and we tried it once after work...didn't work.