Smart keys

[Jcloughie]

As with lots of newish cars of late, they have smart keys which are detected by the car. My car seems to operate fine. I am impressed with the accuracy when leaving the car and the auto locking operating. However. A downside is when my wife carries the spare keys. She does not drive, so this is just for emergency. The car seems to get confused between the two keys. And the systems get thrown. To combat this, I have inserted a piece of paper between the battery and its contact thereby making one key unusable. But easily brought back into service if need be.

I did try putting the spare into a faraday key pouch but this proved to be inaffective.

Has anyone come across this or have any other ideas?

John

 

[otherclive]

Mine work very well except when I’m washing the car and on the two front doors orc rear door it’s continually locking and unlocking as the wash mit goes anywhere near. So the car has to be unlocked and the smart key taken back in to the house.

Like you my wife holds the spare key if we are going away or any distance. It’s kept in her handbag which smothers any signal known to man🙈 Surprised you couldn’t find a RFID pouch that worked. I did think of wrapping it in aluminium foil rather than do anything to the key fob battery as at £300 a pop I’d rather not risk damage.

 

[Jcloughie]

Mine work very well except when I’m washing the car and on the two front doors orc rear door it’s continually locking and unlocking as the wash mit goes anywhere near. So the car has to be unlocked and the smart key taken back in to the house.

Like you my wife holds the spare key if we are going away or any distance. It’s kept in her handbag which smothers any signal known to man🙈 Surprised you couldn’t find a RFID pouch that worked.

I only tried one punch to be fair. But she found it too bulky.

As we are aware, keeping a smart key just inside your front door is poor practice. So I started putting mine in a pouch. One day the car battery drained. The dealership thought it was because the car was continually trying to read the key. I am not convinced. However. On testing, I discovered my pouch was a bit useless. I now have a RFID box which works fine.

John

 

[RogerL]

As with lots of newish cars of late, they have smart keys which are detected by the car. My car seems to operate fine. I am impressed with the accuracy when leaving the car and the auto locking operating. However. A downside is when my wife carries the spare keys. She does not drive, so this is just for emergency. The car seems to get confused between the two keys. And the systems get thrown. To combat this, I have inserted a piece of paper between the battery and its contact thereby making one key unusable. But easily brought back into service if need be.

I did try putting the spare into a faraday key pouch but this proved to be inaffective.

Has anyone come across this or have any other ideas?

John

The fact that using a Faraday pouch didn't solve the issue would worry me - the whole point of the pouch is to prevent the key communicating with anything.

When I ordered my present car I deliberately ordered the base model and then loaded it with just the options I wanted - so no keyless to go wrong and no LED DRL that needs a complete new headlamp when the LED fails - I suspect I would get those options if I was ordering now.

 

[Sam Vimes]

I don't have keyless entry but use a Faraday Pouch for my remote key. The reason being that the buttons are easily pushed when putting in a pockey. I've even unlocked the car with the key in my pocket just by bending over.

The pouches have to be fully closed to be affective - they are a bit bulky though. However, it gives me peace of mind that when I walk away the car isn't going to be accidently unlocked.

 

[Andy Norfolk]

We use a Faraday pouch and I can take the keyless fob to the car in the Faraday pouch and the car doesn't unlock. So for us it works.

 

[Jcloughie]

The fact that using a Faraday pouch didn't solve the issue would worry me - the whole point of the pouch is to prevent the key communicating with anything.

It has to be my rubbish pouches, cheap from Amazon. (Other pouches may be fine). Now I am using a box all is well.

John