Does your BMW react to other marques' keys?
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Hi SueBMW,
I have also found my boot (trunk) open on several occasions, quite worryingly.
Perhaps four or five times in the last six months since I got the car. I have now come to the conclusion that it is because I keep several keys on the same ring and that the key ring itself is pushing against the boot release button whilst I walk away with the keys in my pocket. I have also found that the boot opener can work from quite a distance, adding to the problem. For the last month or so I keep the car key in the slim leather wallet that it came with, it's still on the key ring but cannot accidentally be depressed and I have not had a re-occurence of the boot opening. Try it and see if it works for you.
I have also found my boot (trunk) open on several occasions, quite worryingly.
Perhaps four or five times in the last six months since I got the car. I have now come to the conclusion that it is because I keep several keys on the same ring and that the key ring itself is pushing against the boot release button whilst I walk away with the keys in my pocket. I have also found that the boot opener can work from quite a distance, adding to the problem. For the last month or so I keep the car key in the slim leather wallet that it came with, it's still on the key ring but cannot accidentally be depressed and I have not had a re-occurence of the boot opening. Try it and see if it works for you.
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Thinking about it, isn't there glass that will break one way but not the other? i'm sure there is, does the bmw have it on the protection glass?
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Originally Posted by D2NET' date='Dec 11 2004, 09:02 AM
Hi SueBMW,
I have also found my boot (trunk) open on several occasions, quite worryingly.
Perhaps four or five times in the last six months since I got the car. I have now come to the conclusion that it is because I keep several keys on the same ring and that the key ring itself is pushing against the boot release button whilst I walk away with the keys in my pocket. I have also found that the boot opener can work from quite a distance, adding to the problem. For the last month or so I keep the car key in the slim leather wallet that it came with, it's still on the key ring but cannot accidentally be depressed and I have not had a re-occurence of the boot opening. Try it and see if it works for you.
I have also found my boot (trunk) open on several occasions, quite worryingly.
Perhaps four or five times in the last six months since I got the car. I have now come to the conclusion that it is because I keep several keys on the same ring and that the key ring itself is pushing against the boot release button whilst I walk away with the keys in my pocket. I have also found that the boot opener can work from quite a distance, adding to the problem. For the last month or so I keep the car key in the slim leather wallet that it came with, it's still on the key ring but cannot accidentally be depressed and I have not had a re-occurence of the boot opening. Try it and see if it works for you.
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No, because they are made for hardened glass and safety glass is a sandwich of glass and polycarbonate/acrylate and is design against that kind of force.
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