Keyless Ignition
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Racer
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From: Wickliffe OH
Keyless Ignition
Any info on how this works? My question is if you are standing next to the vehicle with the remote in your pocket, can someone in the driver seat can start car then drive away without the remote in their possesion?
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From: Tarpon Springs Florida
St. Jude Donor '12
NO, the car will not start unless a key fob is INSIDE the car.... doors will unlock with it outside the car though..... this is covered in the owners manual and I had also tested it on my Infinity which also has keyless ignition.
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St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
Originally Posted by wwashing
Makes it very risky letting a stranger take a test drive? I wonder how many will get stolen from dealers that way? 
Racer
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I just do not see the sense of a keyless system... what is so wrong with using a key? I will do a search to see if this was already cover in the forum... but I think this is taking technology just a tad too far where is not needed... just more possible point of failures and for those of us that like to keep cars for a long time, just more electronic gremlins to have to deal down the line...
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From: McKinney TX
St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
Originally Posted by wachuko
I just do not see the sense of a keyless system... what is so wrong with using a key? I will do a search to see if this was already cover in the forum... but I think this is taking technology just a tad too far where is not needed... just more possible point of failures and for those of us that like to keep cars for a long time, just more electronic gremlins to have to deal down the line...
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St. Jude Donor '04-'05-'07
Originally Posted by THE BUD MAN
NO, the car will not start unless a key fob is INSIDE the car.... doors will unlock with it outside the car though..... this is covered in the owners manual and I had also tested it on my Infinity which also has keyless ignition.
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From: Richmond Ca
Originally Posted by RedC6Coupe
Have you read the thread(s) in this forum about how difficult it is to get a dealer to let you test drive a Vette? Even when they do, most insist on having an employee accompany you. I'd say not very many would get stolen that way.
I had an acquaintence who several years ago let some guy steal his car giving a test drive, by passing the guy the keys before he got in the passenger door.
All that being said, It sounds like it's a non-issue.
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I do not think keys are so bad. Being a tech to me it's just something else to fix that will be more complex than having a key made. No doubt the car theives are on top of this already and 
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St. Jude's Donor '06
Originally Posted by Bans25
What happens if the key fob dies on you suddenly...
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St. Jude's Donor '06
The only "new" technology here is the use of triangulation to figure out where the FOB is. That's it. Everything else in the C6's FOB system is used in the C5, but in a different way. There's nothing exceedingly new or complex that will result in problems that couldn't have happened before. Too many people are just afraid of what they don't understand. 
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From: Dover NH
Originally Posted by Scissors
The only "new" technology here is the use of triangulation to figure out where the FOB is. That's it. Everything else in the C6's FOB system is used in the C5, but in a different way. There's nothing exceedingly new or complex that will result in problems that couldn't have happened before. Too many people are just afraid of what they don't understand.
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St. Jude's Donor '06
Originally Posted by wachuko
I just do not see the sense of a keyless system... what is so wrong with using a key?
People like convenience. That's why roll-up windows and manual side mirrors are gone.
I think this is taking technology just a tad too far where is not needed... just more possible point of failures and for those of us that like to keep cars for a long time, just more electronic gremlins to have to deal down the line...
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St. Jude's Donor '06
Originally Posted by Bans25
I just don't want to see more problems like the colum lock issue.. that was one "new" technology" POS that didn't need to be the way it was..
Antennas? Check. Membrane switches? Check. FOB which transmits and communicates with the car? Check. Button? Check. Power door lock? Check.
Other than the triangulation calculation, there's nothing new here. Just a better use of already-used technology.
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From: McKinney TX
St. Jude Donor '21-'22-'23-'24
Originally Posted by Bans25
What happens if the key fob dies on you suddenly...
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At least with the coded key the bad guys had to do a trial and error and it took too much time to steal. Now I suppose they just jump in with a bunch of them and off they go unless there is an infinit number of combos, anyone know for sure.
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Originally Posted by jimman
Now I suppose they just jump in with a bunch of them and off they go unless there is an infinit number of combos, anyone know for sure.
If you'd like to know the process of programming a new transmitter let me know and I'll post that too. But it is a nine step process.
