So, let's say you're sitting at a restaurant or something, near a window, and your car is parked close to you. What's to prevent someone from jumping in and driving away with your car? How far do you have to be before the car no longer senses the key? I'm assuming that once the car's been started, you can drive even without the key.

Also, suppose your key battery dies, and you don't have your second key. Is there a way to drive your car with the physical key?

 

Unless your eating on the car I wouldnt worry

 

yeah you'd have to be like 2 steps away from the car for the key and car to be paired together for it to be opened

 

The key needs to be in the immediate proximity if the door or trunk to unlock the car (I think 31"?). Also, it must be sensed inside the car to start it. If the battery is completely dead, you can take the physical key out of the fob and unlock the driver side door in the traditional manner. You will get a "low battery" warning for the key on your instrument panel before I dues completely; I got it yesterday.

 

Right, but once I use the physical key to get in, I still can't drive the car right? I'd be stuck there, no?

 

u can stick the Ikey in the hole to the left of the steering wheel and it will start

 

You have to be sitting in the car or the key has to be in the car so that the antenna in the car will sense that the key is their and then the car will start.

 

funny ha ha
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ya the oem remote has such crappy range, no one is going to steal the car. and like ben said, if the remote battery dies then you just use the hole to the left of the steering wheel which is what it was designed for.

 

i wouldn't call it crappy range. They don't want you to be shopping in Walmart while some guy is pulling your amps and subs out of your trunk. It's designed to be "crappy"

 

wow, im surprised when you bought the car that the dealership didn't tell you about what to do if the key dies lol

about the removeable key and the hole on the side of the steering column.