Faraday Cage

hollie.weimeraner

I’ve been looking for a Faraday cage for my car keys due to the recent spate of keyless ignition car thefts. By chance I’ve discovered the Lush soap tins at £2-95 are perfect.
Cheapest options elsewhere are £10 and upwards.

JP1978

Any small metal box will suffice really.

Its not so much the keyless ignitions that are targetted but those that are keyless entry and ignition.

AndyMc.....

Any old tin will do.

Nasqueron

Do keyless cars have differing ranges?
Mine is keyless to enter and start the engine (Mazda 3), I go on cycling events and store the key in the saddle bag of my bike. If the bike is by the boot, I cannot unlock the front door (maybe 1.5m away from the key) until I move the key into my hand or pocket next to the door. If my car is parked on the road and the door is locked and the key is 10m+ from the car inside my house, how is it going to unlock? I have forgotten the car key and tried to open the door when the car is maybe 5m from the key and it refuses.

neilmcl

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

I’ve been looking for a Faraday cage for my car keys due to the recent spate of keyless ignition car thefts. By chance I’ve discovered the Lush soap tins at £2-95 are perfect.
Cheapest options elsewhere are £10 and upwards.

If you car is simply keyless ignition rather than keyless entry you have nothing to worry about. It's the keyless entry systems that are at risk to hacking.

hollie.weimeraner

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Any old tin will do.

Actually they don’t. I have an old tin in my garage that I keep drill bits in. I tried that and it didn’t work.
My point really is if you’re looking for something that’s relatively cheap these fit the bill and do the job if you don’t have an old tin knocking about at home.

Mercdriver

Nasqueron wrote: »

Do keyless cars have differing ranges?
Mine is keyless to enter and start the engine (Mazda 3), I go on cycling events and store the key in the saddle bag of my bike. If the bike is by the boot, I cannot unlock the front door (maybe 1.5m away from the key) until I move the key into my hand or pocket next to the door. If my car is parked on the road and the door is locked and the key is 10m+ from the car inside my house, how is it going to unlock? I have forgotten the car key and tried to open the door when the car is maybe 5m from the key and it refuses.

same with my CX5. Any further than the rear doors, and pressing the button on the doors has no affect. If I have the engine running and I am at the back of the car, the car beeps at me telling me keys missing (obviously only in my gated drive).

Car_54

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

Actually they don’t. I have an old tin in my garage that I keep drill bits in. I tried that and it didn’t work.
My point really is if you’re looking for something that’s relatively cheap these fit the bill and do the job if you don’t have an old tin knocking about at home.

Treat yourself to beans on toast.

facade

Nasqueron wrote: »

Do keyless cars have differing ranges?
Mine is keyless to enter and start the engine (Mazda 3), I go on cycling events and store the key in the saddle bag of my bike. If the bike is by the boot, I cannot unlock the front door (maybe 1.5m away from the key) until I move the key into my hand or pocket next to the door. If my car is parked on the road and the door is locked and the key is 10m+ from the car inside my house, how is it going to unlock? I have forgotten the car key and tried to open the door when the car is maybe 5m from the key and it refuses.

There are fairy tales of thieves using a sort of repeater gadget that amplifies the signal from your keys in the kitchen, and relays it to the car, but what actually happens is they pop the drivers window, reach in and plug a laptop into the obd port, then defeat all the security, open the deadlocked doors, start it up and drive away- takes about as long to do as it did for you to read this.

AndyMc.....

facade wrote: »

There are fairy tales of thieves using a sort of repeater gadget that amplifies the signal from your keys in the kitchen, and relays it to the car, but what actually happens is they pop the drivers window, reach in and plug a laptop into the obd port, then defeat all the security, open the deadlocked doors, start it up and drive away- takes about as long to do as it did for you to read this.

There plenty off cctv footage showing they don't pop the window.

DUTR

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

I’ve been looking for a Faraday cage for my car keys due to the recent spate of keyless ignition car thefts. By chance I’ve discovered the Lush soap tins at £2-95 are perfect.
Cheapest options elsewhere are £10 and upwards.

A steering wheel lock or any other visible deterrent is enough to reduce the risk, one would think cars that are stolen are always keyless and until then a car wasn't stolen?

Nowadays in reality many modern cars are keyless, the fact that you put and turn a key is just for novelty (how do you think the stop/start system works?)
Indeed some cars once entered can be started once there is access to the OBD port, they are not necessarily keyless.