Unlock your Car with the PPC 6700

[DopeWeasel]

Found this diggin around tonight, what do you all think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXUmx...%2Dthey%2Dwork

Oh... uhh, watch the second vid on that page.

[Trident]

Please don't tell me that anyone seriously believes that a car that uses RF signals can be unlocked with an IR signal.
The cellphone one is even more ridiculous.
Now, the tennis ball... that might work on some cheap cars. But it would certainly set off an alarm on any car that has an electronic locking mechanism.

[chuque]

I don't see how either would work, unless you had an air tight door panel or an alarm that works off of IR ...

[Shadoh]

As someone who works for an "on site" mobile electronics company and who has installed thousands of alarms and other vehicle electronics at the dealerships I have to say BS.

The only one I could see working is if you had an older Jeep product that used the IR alarm/keyless entry transmitters (yes, they had them, stupid idea) you could possible teach those to your device and try to use its very weak IR transmitter to unlock the Jeep.

[dannyppc6700]

right. older jeep has IR.

Or if you had some kind of internet service/ w/ onstar type of service.

[bmtbandit]

I don't believe this either, although Mercedes (2004 SL500) uses IR to allow the person to put the top and windows down. This could be what they are eluding to.

[badutahboy]

Originally Posted by bmtbandit

I don't believe this either, although Mercedes (2004 SL500) uses IR to allow the person to put the top and windows down. This could be what they are eluding to.

my 2001 Mercedes C240 also uses IR for the windows/sunroof.. In fact, the ignition is IR as well..

[badutahboy]

Just for shlts and giggles, I tested these theories.

I tested the beam theory on my sisters 2002 Toyota Corolla... No dice.

I tested the signal by phone theory on my 2001 Mercedes C240, my 2006 Dodge Ram, and my sisters 2002 Corolla... no dice.

I didn't test the tennis ball theory because I don't have one handy, but it's also nonsense, as the door lock is not a sealed system. IF you can compress air into the car, it would simply fill the door cavity, and leak out through the seep holes inthe bottom of the door. The only possible way it would work is if you had something that could push air into the door faster than the seep holes, window scrubbers, locking mechanism, etc could release that pressure from the door cavity. Presumably, you'd need at least a 5 gallon air tank which could release all of it's air within a couple of seconds. Even then, it's doubtful about whether it'd work.

[Shadoh]

my 2001 Mercedes C240 also uses IR for the windows/sunroof.. In fact, the ignition is IR as well.

The ignition is only partly IR. You still have to rotate the cylinder to start the car. Only the code to tell the computer its ok to start is IR. I wonder if you could take a code learning IR remote and learn the code from the key and then rotate the cylinder without the actual Mercedes key with say pliers, screwdriver, general thief type tools ). I think the car tells the key when to transmit the code though so I dont know how you could easily get it to send while facing a learning remote.

[Krayziepop]

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp

Yeah.... gotsta love the start of an urban legend...