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Old Aug 9, 2007 | 02:16 PM
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Has anyone tryed this out? As long as you point the metal end of the key towards your car, you can be REALLY far away!

I was upstairs in my office building and my car was about a football field and some more away and it worked!!!
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 02:36 PM
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If you put it up to your chin, it works even further away.
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 02:43 PM
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Really?? Why sort of how when you touch a radio antenna it comes in clearer?
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 03:01 PM
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Because of the fillings in your teeth (if you have fillings), it makes the remote transmit farther away by holding it under your chin.
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 03:04 PM
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on my xB, i was on the 6th floor of a hospital and my xb was maybe 1/4 mile away

worked fine
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by HR_Guy
Because of the fillings in your teeth (if you have fillings), it makes the remote transmit farther away by holding it under your chin.
no this is not true... i have no filling and this still works.... also works wit my FM transmitters... hmmm
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 08:11 PM
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Doesn't work for me more than like 50 feet away, does that suck or what?
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 08:23 PM
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you pointing it at the car like a harry potter wand?
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 08:32 PM
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i got an aftermarket security system and it'll work while im in the middle of my office through the walls and stuff. pretty cool. dono why ud need that tho lol.
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 08:38 PM
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you could always try this...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/753182...larm_extender/
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by mike6789k
Originally Posted by HR_Guy
Because of the fillings in your teeth (if you have fillings), it makes the remote transmit farther away by holding it under your chin.
no this is not true... i have no filling and this still works.... also works wit my FM transmitters... hmmm
Yeah I don't have any either. I thought it had to do with the electrical pulses of the brain.
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 10:18 PM
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I guess it could be wrong. This is what the car stereo place that installed my alarm told me. Oh well, my remote works up to a half mile away
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 03:32 AM
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if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 04:06 AM
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Originally Posted by giftednimrod
if your hand is bigger than your face you have cancer

*slap!*


lol
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by XtC2006
Originally Posted by mike6789k
Originally Posted by HR_Guy
Because of the fillings in your teeth (if you have fillings), it makes the remote transmit farther away by holding it under your chin.
no this is not true... i have no filling and this still works.... also works wit my FM transmitters... hmmm
Yeah I don't have any either. I thought it had to do with the electrical pulses of the brain.
It's because the radio waves refract off your skull. same concept behind a satellite dish.
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by XtC2006
If you put it up to your chin, it works even further away.
i thought u were joking, seems like they took u seriously.
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 06:18 AM
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^^ i think he was joking.
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by bronxblaza117
Originally Posted by XtC2006
If you put it up to your chin, it works even further away.
i thought u were joking, seems like they took u seriously.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/563785...te_with_skull/
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 06:26 AM
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This reminds of when I used to work at a market two years ago. I parked my car around the side where there were cameras. I would go into the room with the Monitors and since that room was just on the other side of the wall I would set off my alarm as people would walk right by it and watch the people jump. It was pretty fun. Good times.
Old Aug 10, 2007 | 04:16 PM
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Nope...I wasn't joking.



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