keys

ranger magnum · Post by **ranger magnum** » Sat Sep 06, 2014 6:22 pm

Bring an extra set of keys fer chrissakes. Take a door key and zip tie it to a brake line under the car. Those magnetic key boxes will fall off.

Even if your car key has an electronic door lock mechanism, just make a copy of the actual key. It's cheap. Lock the good key in the car, and use the copy to get in and out.

I did so many lock outs for people, I stopped counting. All it takes is 15 minutes of your time and about five bucks, and you will save yourself a lot of grief....

Post by **AntiM** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 8:20 am

Amazingly, MyLarry didn't do any lockouts this year. At our regional, yes, but not in the dust. Maybe no one knew where we were camped.

Post by **Sham** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:24 pm

I discovered a great trick for keeping a spare key in the car.
The new remote fobs have batteries in them, and therefore can't be left inside the car as a spare because it interferes with the system and you can't lock the car.
I have a Nissan, and I removed the battery from my spare fob and left it in the glove box. This fob can be inserted into a socket in the dashboard and it will liven up and run the car.
I now can carry my active fob and a standard key to get me inside the car as a spare. On the playa, you can carry a few extra keys---just in case.

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:28 pm

I bring spare keys, and leave my day to day key ring (a start the car key, along with my house keys, and maybe a duplicate bike padlock key) in the car. When I am packing and unpacking, opening and closing the doors and locking them off and on as I leave the vehicle unattended, I wear an entry key on a piece of rope around my neck. This year I added a pink marking ribbon to that rope, and it really made it easier to find in my tent and in camp. I also have extra keys stashed in various places.

Meat Hunter · Post by **Meat Hunter** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:47 pm

I keep a spare key duck taped under the license plate of all my vehicles.

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:37 pm

I rent a BFT so I'm just really fucking careful...

Post by **Elderberry** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:53 pm

lucky420 wrote:I rent a BFT so I'm just really fucking careful...

Me too. Rarely do they give you a spare key--even if you ask.

Drawingablank · Post by **Drawingablank** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:37 pm

lucky420 wrote:I rent a BFT so I'm just really fucking careful...

Me too - but being a new Yorker there is always rebar and hot wiring if necessary.

Post by **Sham** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:52 pm

What's a BFT?

ranger magnum · Post by **ranger magnum** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:00 pm

Big Fucking Truck?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:55 pm

Bacon Frying Tunnel-digger

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:49 am

ranger magnum wrote:Big Fucking Truck?

Ding ding ding winner winner chicken dinner

FIGJAM · Post by **FIGJAM** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:41 am

Leave the doors at home!!!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:12 am

lucky420 wrote:
ranger magnum wrote:Big Fucking Truck?

Ding ding ding winner winner chicken dinner

Not even an honorable mention and a couple of buffalo wings?

SnowBlind · Post by **SnowBlind** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:39 pm

We usually switch the spare keys between cars. Spare key to my car is in someone elses care, his/her spare key is in mine.

I suppose this could still be bad if we are all stupid at the same time, but that hasn't happend yet to us.

shieldbearer · Post by **shieldbearer** » Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:46 am

I had a rental, they gave me two keys with a remote fob, all hooked together with wire rope, no way to separate them without some kind of wire cutters???

Jovankat · Post by **Jovankat** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:51 am

I'm sure you could find a neighbour with wire cutters fairly easyily.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:38 pm

I bring multiple sets of spares. That's one stupid problem I really don't want to deal with in the desert.
I'd also like to attempt to express my hatred of those fucking computer-chip new car keys. Had a European with those... if you accidentally bring the wrong key NEAR the ignition switch, it fucks up the programming and it won't run. The last remaining good key got lost, and the car spent over A MONTH at two different dealers to get a new key working for it.
Fuck ALL the computer garbage in new cars. It works great while it works... then it becomes a nightmare that even the dealers can't troubleshoot. Hundreds of thousands of cars are and will be junked because a circuit board went bad, and it's either unavailable or crazy expensive. Or it's just a bad connection somewhere... that no one can diagnose.
Tell me, in the Big Picture, is it better for the environment to keep throwing whole cars away because all the bullshit they have to have in them to be so efficient goes bad? My old Chevy is 60 years old. I wonder if it will even be possible to get any new car built today to run at all 60 years from now - starting with the goddamm chip-key system...

ranger magnum · Post by **ranger magnum** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 7:51 pm

One has to look no further than the BMW 750IL from the early 90's. 80k when new, 7 years later they were 6500. That big v12 was a bitch to work on, and parts were beyond expensive.

Same with the Range Rover in 2007. The super charged version was nearly 90k. Now, they go for less than 20. Poor reliability killed what was a pretty competent SUV.

Post by **Savannah** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:38 pm

shieldbearer wrote:I had a rental, they gave me two keys with a remote fob, all hooked together with wire rope, no way to separate them without some kind of wire cutters???

This happened to me too last year, and I hated it! So ridiculous. The fobs could not be copied easily, nor could they be separated! . . . The rental place told me that the only reason they were hooked together was because they aim to sell the car after a few years, and needed to keep the fobs together.

I was scared of misplacing the key fobs, so I . . .

1) clipped them to a lanyard worn around my neck every time I had to use them, to minimize the distance they could go from my body. They were always either around my neck (preferable) or looped around my wrist several times while actually in use.

2) promptly hid them back in the same place in my campsite every time after use.

3) never took them out of camp, ever. There's a 50/50 chance I'd lose them if I did, and/or I'd spend the entire time worrying about doing so. I'm much more likely to lose keys than have the boring parts of my encampment ransacked.

I'm sure a lot of people feel more secure keeping their keys with them at all times, but they may have A System that is foolproof for their personality-type. (Alternatively, they may be one of the hundreds of folks who lose keys every year).

MikeGyver · Post by **MikeGyver** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:59 pm

I just leave it unlocked with the keys in it tucked under the seat. I do Like the Idea of a key duct taped to the back of the license plate. Metal Hide-a-Keys fall off all the time and anybody that wants to get into your vehicle will probably find it.

Molotov · Post by **Molotov** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:59 pm

Wasn't there an RV stolen in 2014? Short of leaving the keys in the ignition, how did that happen?

keys

keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys

Re: keys