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To: Olog-hai

This is ot but I have seen posts about locking car doors. Boy, do I have a story for you. I have been sick so I was sitting in a recliner yesterday near a front window. I heard a truck on the street and looked out the window. I watched the driver open my trunk from inside his truck. I made a police report mainly to see if this had been reported. Neither he not my Honda serviceman even knew it was possible. Why and how did someone open a trunk instead of the doors? I would find it had to believe except I saw the trunk open. Any ideas? I do not have to worry about my car growing runners because the battery is deader than a nail. The dealer is coming out tomorrow to tow it. What makes it even odder is my car battery was fine Thursday when I went to the dr.


49 posted on 01/19/2014 2:01:02 PM PST by MamaB
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To: MamaB
I watched the driver open my trunk from inside his truck. I made a police report mainly to see if this had been reported. Neither he not my Honda serviceman even knew it was possible. Why and how did someone open a trunk instead of the doors?

The way your car's remote works is by transmitting a code, which your car receives and interprets as a signal to open the trunk. There's a different code to open the doors.

There's only a finite number of codes. If you go down a street hitting your remote, sooner or later you will pass a car with the same code as yours. The chance of a remote's having the same trunk code AND the same door code is vanishingly small, though.

65 posted on 01/19/2014 3:59:45 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: MamaB
i don;t know where you live, but... on old trick is to take your battery and replace it with a dead one knowing you will replace it, then they replace the one they took for the new one
70 posted on 01/19/2014 5:16:49 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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