Re: Fail-safe for keyless entry

[Ned Flanders <ned.flanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Green wrote:
> "George"<george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
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>> On 4/20/2010 9:47 AM, Robert Green wrote:
>>> "aemeijers"<aemeijers@xxxxxxx>   wrote in message
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>>>> rtandems@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> I just leave the fob at home and use the key.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Brian
>>>>
>>>> And we have a winner! I got 1 huge ungainly combined key and fob with
> my
>>>> used 05 mopar van. Stopped at locksmith on way home, and got 2
>>>> chip-but-no-button keys to use instead. Only downside is, only doors
>>>> with keyholes are driver door and hatch.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> aem sends...
>>>
>>> Good idea, but no can do here.  Van is a kneeling van with a handicapped
>>> ramp that unfolds via the door that has no keylock!  Gotta be the fob.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bobby G.
>>>
>>>
>> Maybe get a third party system that is designed better than the junky
>> stuff the car manufacturers use? Thats what I have done on the last two
>> vehicles we own.
>
> If it was new, I might, but it's 8 years old and I believe that there's a
> cheaper, easier, simpler way around the problem, even if it does come down
> to putting it in a hard shell case of some sort.  There seems to be enough
> space to put a micro-pushbutton on the fob.  I am just not sure that one
> button will serve all 7 fob buttons.
>
> I may also be able to rewire the panic button, which we never use, to serve
> as the second pushbutton.  My preliminary scan of the circuit board wasn't
> very encouraging, though.  There are a lot of tiny traces around the panic
> button pad.
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
>

You say its too old after only 8 years?

I put a remote door/ trunk opener with starter into a 15 year old
mustang. It was the best thing I ever added to it. Unfortunately last
year (at 19 years old) it was t-boned and written off (too bad for me it
did not have side air bags - my replacement does).

My new car will re-lock the doors if the unlock button is pressed but a
door (or the lift gate) is not opened within 30 seconds.