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Door handle request switch - security threat?

Old Aug 14, 2009 | 12:27 AM
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Question Door handle request switch - security threat?

The owner manual states you can push the door handle request switch once to unlock the door as long as your key fab is in range.

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So I am 100 feet from my vehicle someone else is by my car and can open it??? What am I missing? This seems like a major security threat!

I want it disabled.
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 12:30 AM
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Er you have to stand like within a feet of the door to open it.
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 12:32 AM
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Doesnt say what the range is....but i just did a quick trial and it appears you need to be within 5 feet of car????
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 12:34 AM
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It says on the manual for sure
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 12:47 AM
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lol at owner if someone steels your car if you're within five feet of it... i believe they normally wait until you walk away...
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 12:57 AM
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actually the online manual doesnt say, but thank you anyway : )
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 01:16 AM
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i had this same question when i was buying the car, and did a test myself, i had to be about 3 feet away for it to work, so no need to worry.
Old Aug 14, 2009 | 01:22 AM
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It seems like you have tested this out already and found out that the fob must be outside the car and within a few feet so this thread has served any usefulness it might possibly have had.

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Old Aug 14, 2009 | 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by calvin_hobbes
actually the online manual doesnt say, but thank you anyway : )
Actually yes it does (I got these from the online manual here http://www.infinitiusa.com/iapps/techpubs):





Do you think they would design a system that let you passively open the door from over a hundred feet away?
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