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Then it amplifies the signal from the car searching for the RFID and finds the proper response.
I don't know...I refuse to use them or have them.
If he reported the facts as they were, and the responses from various agencies, could be a bad deal.
 
google "auto entry fob amplifier" and see the first six or seven entries.
 
OK, I now see what's up.
 
Lucky for me my car is immune to such threats; now if a guy comes along with a wire hanger and a hot wire, I might lose my Caddy.
 
waltesefalcon said:
Lucky for me my car is immune to such threats; now if a guy comes along with a wire hanger and a hot wire, I might lose my Caddy.
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Tell ya a story. 45+ years ago when I bought this 1950 Ford, they guy had worked in a rough part of Oakland or San Fran. So, he obtained another interior light switch (they are dash mount, pull out to turn the lights on, push in for off).
He poked a hole in the back of the cardboard glovebox liner, connected zip cord to the terminals, ran the zip cord along the wiring harness to the distributor, taping up the loom as he went. Poked a hole in the bottom of the distributor housing (looked like a hammer and punch), connected the wires between the coil connection and the point.
Got to the jobsite, opened the glovebox, smacked the stack of maps, which pushed the switch in, killing coil connection to points. No amount of hotwiring, pulling cap to make sure the rotor was there would help. You had no spark.
Get off work, get in the car, light up your stogie, go to dig your sunglasses out of the glovebox, two fingers over the top of the map, grab the knob on the switch and pull it out, drag the sunglasses out, put them on, slam the glovebox, take a drag on the stogie, hit the start button, it fires up, and off you drive, even if the bad guys who may want to steal your car are watching...they can't figure out what you did.
Dave
 
I won't announce to the planet just where/how it's mounted but there's a "kill switch" in the Elans, integrated into the iggy circuit. Without the 'start sequence' of events, no go.
 
Originally had a plain (no gate markings) gear knob on the Healeys three speed box. With the reverse gate pattern it would have stumped any potential thieves. Should probably have kept it that way.
 
DrEntropy said:
I won't announce to the planet just where/how it's mounted but there's a "kill switch" in the Elans, integrated into the iggy circuit. Without the 'start sequence' of events, no go.
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(I've been adding one of those to every car I've owned since the 1970s. Ignition is always off *until* you hit the magic button.) Got the idea from two of my early mentors:

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I post here the question I've been asking ever since I had custody of a friend's Lexus for several months and found out I could open the door just by touching the door handle with the fob in my pocket. When the fob was in the house, the door would stay locked. My question is this - who's asking for all this S#IT? Touch screens, fobs, Blue Tooth, Blackberry, Blu-Ray, radios you can't tune...That's why I'm reluctant to part with my '02 Accord V6 and my '87 Maxima. But I did drive a Subaru Legacy and I'm tempted...
 
The Lost Generation. Those who can't live without having their stupidphone 3.0 in their hand 24/7 and constantly updating their status on FacePlant.
Technology for Technologies sake. You know they have black boxes imbedded in your new cars so the coppers can download what you were doing? Next up with be law enforcement fobs they have in their pocket and it downloads that data and proves (in a court of law) how fast you were going, etcetera, etcetera.
Heck and begorrah, they already have roadside download points to read your texts, phone messages, as you drive by. And somehow that's legal.
I don't even have remote locks on the wife's exploder.
One cop hack here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/data-pirates-aka-cops-can-hack-your-cell-phone-2011-4
 
Who's asking for this stuff? We're *all* asking for this stuff.

So car makers figure they can raise a price by $500 by adding another $50 (wholesale) bit of glitz.

Back in brass age cars, often the headlamps were optional. Then they became standard - and another reason to raise the price.

Henry Ford is rolling in his grave; I believe he thought the Model T was all anyone would ever need.
 
I think it's George Orwell who's spinning.
 
Asking? Nah. Consumer Research by automakers drives it.
How do you combat drunken driving (and if you think it's okay to sue firearm manufacturers because some low life gang banger shoots someone with a stolen firearm, why don't we sue auto makers for drunk driving deaths?) and "distracted" (cell phone) use driving, oh, yeah, let's make driverless automobiles, yeah, that's the ticket...or not the ticket.
Going to be highly interesting when cops try to cite someone for driving while sleeping, texting, smokin' a joint...when they aren't really driving...and the huge loss of income to the cities and municipalities.

To show you, not car related:

In model railroads, one man in one organization thought we all needed plug-and-play technology. Nobody wanted it....adds about $100US to the cost (based upon replacement cost of the socket board)...and we all cut it out and start over...but there are those that claim we all wanted it.
No we did not.

Who wanted to eliminate wind wings?

Who wanted front wheel drive exclusively?
 
Was talking to a friend recently, his son lives on a farm and one of his vehicles is a 1952 Dodge Power Wagon, he dared anyone to steal it because there is some extra thing that has to be done to start the engine up... :highly_amused: The good old days...

Even my 2009 Hyundai Accent is rather bare bones, no factory alarm system of any sort like most cars seem to have these days, I do probably have a fancy key that probably costs $500 to replace though... :rapture:
 
"there is some extra thing that has to be done to start the engine up... :highly_amused: The good old days..."

You mean - push in the clutch pedal?

Tradition!

 
NutmegCT said:
"there is some extra thing that has to be done to start the engine up... :highly_amused: The good old days..."

You mean - push in the clutch pedal?

Tradition!
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Apparently there is a third pedal of some sort, not just the clutch...
 
Maybe he meant pulling the choke?

(I think it'd be tough for many drivers to get a model T or a model A started. Even a model A needs throttle and spark adjusted, the choke has to be held out (& it's in front of the passenger), and the starter pedal pushed. When it starts (if you remembered to turn the gas on), you can let go of the choke knob and deal with the throttle & spark quickly to keep it running.
 
During part of my early college days, I drove this TR-3.

It had a miserable starter, a hand-me-down battery (from my neighbor's Rambler) and a fairly potent TR4 engine (bought for $100 from Stuckers junk yard in Staten Island....that place was a gold mine for foreign car parts).

It would start with "24 volts" but otherwise, the starter was just a paperweight.

The only reliable way to get it started was with the hand crank.

But it would also "kick back", so my Dad taught me to back off the timing by moving the distributor before commencing with the "manual starting" procedure. I usually carried a 7/16" wrench for that purpose. I put a mark on the distributor so I could get it back to the correct position after it started. It also needed full choke but would foul plugs if the choke was left on too long. And the backed-off timing would cause the idle to run too low so I had to "goose it" while I was carefully backing off the choke and then readjusting the timing. If it was even a little cold, it also needed starting fluid.

After going though all that, Physics and Calculus seemed easy.

Anyone who was inclined to steal that car would have needed me to assist them. :friendly_wink:

For what it's worth, once it was started it actually ran pretty good and I did my first laps on a race track (Bridgehampton) in this car.

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coldplugs said:
Maybe he meant pulling the choke?

(I think it'd be tough for many drivers to get a model T or a model A started. Even a model A needs throttle and spark adjusted, the choke has to be held out (& it's in front of the passenger), and the starter pedal pushed. When it starts (if you remembered to turn the gas on), you can let go of the choke knob and deal with the throttle & spark quickly to keep it running.
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Ah...you forgot...CCW on the choke knob before you pull it out....1-2 turns, depending on weather and your personal experience with that car.....opens the main jet, richens the mix....as it warms up, you lean it back out..so as you drive, you adjust throttle, timing, fuel mixture...and it's no wonder they never has turn signal switches.....
 
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