Locked keys in boot, and that's not the half of it!
07-20-2010, 09:04 PM
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This absolutely does work. Perhaps you or your other end didn't do it right. It worked on my E60 several months back. I was about 80 miles from home and called to have the door open. Worked on the E39 too. X5 wasn't successful but that could be an issue with the remote. Sometimes It barely opens when it's 2 ft away. Let them laugh. What is so hard to understand that the remote is 315MHz and your phone is running off a frequency higher than that. I was using a GSM phone and that is 850MHz & 1900MHz.
09-08-2010, 07:11 PM
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This absolutely does work. Perhaps you or your other end didn't do it right. It worked on my E60 several months back. I was about 80 miles from home and called to have the door open. Worked on the E39 too. X5 wasn't successful but that could be an issue with the remote. Sometimes It barely opens when it's 2 ft away. Let them laugh. What is so hard to understand that the remote is 315MHz and your phone is running off a frequency higher than that. I was using a GSM phone and that is 850MHz & 1900MHz.
On cell phones and land lines they compress audio thats audible to human ear and digitize and toss the rest out.. the ONLY way it would work would be if the fobs worked on sound waves it does not it works on RADIO waves.
Telephones are not raw lines that transmit everything... they are heavily filtered and augmented for human hearing only.
It is impossible that it worked... if you can show me some proof and show me how you got this miracle to happen i will gladly apologize.
09-09-2010, 09:22 AM
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This absolutely does work. Perhaps you or your other end didn't do it right. It worked on my E60 several months back. I was about 80 miles from home and called to have the door open. Worked on the E39 too. X5 wasn't successful but that could be an issue with the remote. Sometimes It barely opens when it's 2 ft away. Let them laugh. What is so hard to understand that the remote is 315MHz and your phone is running off a frequency higher than that. I was using a GSM phone and that is 850MHz & 1900MHz.
09-09-2010, 10:27 AM
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BMW Assistance in the UK seem to have advanced a lot in the recent years.
When my 2 year-old kid got locked-in and I called BMW assist, they came with a brick.
The guy did not have the heart to break the glass, there was risk that kid could be sprayed with glass.
I still have the scratches in a couple of the windows.
In the end he bended the upper edge of the driver door (where it meets the back door and the roof), used a pump to keep it open, used a thick wire to fish the key from the floor where my son had dropped it after clicking on the CLOSE button.
Still have the scratches where the wire met the door frame.
I am intrigued how he opened it for you.
Please PM me for future reference.
When my 2 year-old kid got locked-in and I called BMW assist, they came with a brick.
The guy did not have the heart to break the glass, there was risk that kid could be sprayed with glass.
I still have the scratches in a couple of the windows.
In the end he bended the upper edge of the driver door (where it meets the back door and the roof), used a pump to keep it open, used a thick wire to fish the key from the floor where my son had dropped it after clicking on the CLOSE button.
Still have the scratches where the wire met the door frame.
I am intrigued how he opened it for you.
Please PM me for future reference.
05-09-2019, 09:25 AM
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And this is the reason I always lock the car with the key, either turning the key in the lock, or holding in my had and pressing the fob as I walk away. No exceptions.
05-16-2019, 08:08 PM
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I did the same exact thing. Called AAA and a dude showed up and said he'd have it opened in 5 seconds. 1.5 hours later and he couldn't do jack. Then he wanted to drill a hole behind my plate and I said nope. Called another dude and he showed up and said he'll be in the trunk in 2 seconds. Umm didn't happen.
Ok then he gets this crazy adjustable key gadget thingy and to my amazement he successfully picked the trunk lock.
Well that was $175 but he told me that if AAA couldn't open it and someone else does, AAA will pay for it. I submitted a claim and got my $175 back. When I told that story to my indy dealer, he said BMW could have opened it remotely.
Ok then he gets this crazy adjustable key gadget thingy and to my amazement he successfully picked the trunk lock.
Well that was $175 but he told me that if AAA couldn't open it and someone else does, AAA will pay for it. I submitted a claim and got my $175 back. When I told that story to my indy dealer, he said BMW could have opened it remotely.
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