So some **** tried to jam my car remote

[supersunbird]

Guys watch your insurance company probably will not pay out if no forced entry. Put brick through window.

Just make sure you are not on candid camera...

 

[Census]

Happened to me this afternoon at Chilli Lane Sunninghill. f**kers tried the same thing.
Black golf with tinted windows literally followed me to the parking bay. I always make sure the car is locked, they eventually drove off.
I think we should start a thread with places where this is happening.
Maybe some two step mixed with brandy will do the trick.

 

[ponder]

I think we should start a thread with places where this is happening.

I reckon it's happening everywhere.

 

[x S1 x]

I used to hate the beeping on the alarm on/off, now I'm glad for it...

I usually take a few steps and press again...

 

[b_crazy]

It happened to me once. I wouldn't leave the car until I was sure it was locked. Turned and looked around it saw an ADT security guy (bulletproof vest and and gun and all) with a remote in his hand. Soon as he saw I'd seen him he slowly put his hand in his pocket then look away. Caltex in Blairgowrie

It's you car, trust NOBODY

 

[DA-LION-619]

Aren't new cars resistant to remote jamming

 

[ToxicBunny]

It happened to me once. I wouldn't leave the car until I was sure it was locked. Turned and looked around it saw an ADT security guy (bulletproof vest and and gun and all) with a remote in his hand. Soon as he saw I'd seen him he slowly put his hand in his pocket then look away. Caltex in Blairgowrie

It's you car, trust NOBODY

Thats when I'd walk up to the guy, **** on him in public, then phone the response number printed on the side of his vehicle and complain...

 

[herbertk]

I was quite shocked, at home last night I held in the button on my gate remote and then tried to lock my car it did not work at all. Tried the same with another car different brand same issue.

The gate/garage door remote generates too much noise it seems and the car remote signal is lost so to say. Pretty scared how easy it is!

 

[Mk786]

hectic. This happens to me somtimes but its not someone trying to jam the signal.

 

[SmartKit]

Aren't new cars resistant to remote jamming

I think newer cars might have frequency cycling so you can't jam with a single remote frequency.

Still, I'm always careful and listen for the click - or at the very least the lights must flicker.

 

[S1ght]

Had one of these happen to me. Parked at a small shopping centre in Bryanston, out the car, car doesn't want to click shut. No problem, I start walking away and then suddenly swing round and walk to the car. Two guys were walking rapidly towards where I was parked. They noticed me coming back and took off at a sprint in the opposite direction. Got back in the car and left to go to another centre.

****s.

What shopping centre in Bryanston?

 

[herbertk]

I think newer cars might have frequency cycling so you can't jam with a single remote frequency.

Still, I'm always careful and listen for the click - or at the very least the lights must flicker.

I think the issue with the gate opener remote is it is just generating noise, so the signal to noise ratio is the issue not the frequency itself so even with the cycling this is still an issue.

 

[SmartKit]

I think the issue with the gate opener remote is it is just generating noise, so the signal to noise ratio is the issue not the frequency itself so even with the cycling this is still an issue.

If that were the case all radios would stop working, WiFi would become intemittent, cellphones would jam and planes would fall from the sky. They definitely do create noise, but it has to be at a certain, though not exact, frequency.

However, the vast majority of vehicle manufacturers, and other manufacturers of remote controls such as gate and garage automation, produce remote controls that operate on a frequency of 433MHz issued by ICASA, the regulator for the South African communications sector. This results in this frequency being very busy with many, many remote controls utilising this airspace.

Typically what can happen is if two remote controls operating on the same frequency are activated simultaneously and within range of each other, the signals that they are transmitting can interfere with one another. The result could mean that the receiver doesn’t recognise the ‘strange’ interfered-with signal from its know transmitter remote control. What happens? Nothing – the receiver simply doesn’t react. This is fine if you’re trying to open your gate – your home is still secure, and you just press your remote again and your gate opens.

Now you can imagine that in the instance of locking your car you would want to know that your car really is locked when you press your remote control. If a car owner in your vicinity presses their remote at the exact same instant as you, or for some reason is holding their remote button down, for example to automatically open all of their car windows before getting in to let all of the hot air out (nice feature!), then this will certainly interfere with your car’s remote control signal.

This doesn’t have to be another vehicle remote control; it could be any type of remote control operating on the same 433MHz frequency that can cause interference.

 

[herbertk]

If that were the case all radios would stop working, WiFi would become intemittent, cellphones would jam and planes would fall from the sky. They definitely do create noise, but it has to be at a certain, though not exact, frequency.

Sure what I meant was that the cycling of the frequencies are still in a specified range. Just my take on it.. so the gate opener is generating noise in the correct spectrum.

 

[grim]

Aren't new cars resistant to remote jamming

Seems to be dependant on the car, a work colleague had his laptop taken out of his new Merc E500's boot

I've tested with various remotes on my Golf 6 and none of them have been able to jam it

 

[herbertk]

Sure what I meant was that the cycling of the frequencies are still in a specified range. Just my take on it.. so the gate opener is generating noise in the correct spectrum.

EDIT : Read the second part so perhaps newer cars will not have this issue, I only tested with 2 both new 2013, but not high end to be sure..

 

[Rickster]

OP, How do you know they were targeting you? I mean the remote has a AOE of a few meters so they could have been targeting somebody else, or they were actually targeting your car.

I would have hid the valuables (in locked cubby) and waited for them, then beat the sht out of them.

 

[Rickster]

Seems to be dependant on the car, a work colleague had his laptop taken out of his new Merc E500's boot

I've tested with various remotes on my Golf 6 and none of them have been able to jam it

Did you use a new tech remote or the old one with the 16 "switches"

 

[R13...]

OP, How do you know they were targeting you? I mean the remote has a AOE of a few meters so they could have been targeting somebody else, or they were actually targeting your car.

I would have hid the valuables (in locked cubby) and waited for them, then beat the sht out of them.

I was the only car that just arrived and after locking with the key I was able to activate the immobiliser with remote. So they had given up.

My chubby is not lockable.

 

[dlk001]

Guys watch your insurance company probably will not pay out if no forced entry. Put brick through window.

That would be fraud.

My insurance paid out and work insurance paid for the notebook.