Lost Car & House Keys A14 Suffolk

[dirty doug]

Hi thanks for looking.
My wife left her keys on the car roof in Trimley St Mary 28-1-16 approx 5.30pm near Gullivers Chip Shop & drove off.
The car is keyless & doesn't need the key in the ignition.
She is dopey & will be punished...

She thinks she heard them fall from the roof on the A14 Westbound between Trimley St Martin & Orwell bridge. Or maybe along Trimley St Martin/Mary High Road.
Again she is dopey & will be punished...

There should be a Morrisons Match & More Fob attached similar to the pic along with a Nissan Key Fob as the picture. Also on the keyring should be 2 Yale style keys & various other bits of tat my Wife keeps on there...
Not too much of a surprise but she is dopey & will be punished...

If you find these I would be very grateful & will pay a reward of £50.
My wife will be even more grateful as I will stop her punishment...

Edited by dirty doug on Friday 29th January 09:45

Edited by dirty doug on Friday 29th January 09:46

[B'stard Child]

Can't help with the lost keys but a question comes to mind

When the keys are out of range does the car not stop???

[dirty doug]

B'stard Child said:

Can't help with the lost keys but a question comes to mind

When the keys are out of range does the car not stop???

No the car keeps going.

But if you are male, you will notice the dashboard telling you in no uncertain terms, that the keys are no longer in range...

UPDATE

Well the morrisons fob still works...

[B'stard Child]

dirty doug said:

B'stard Child said:

Can't help with the lost keys but a question comes to mind

When the keys are out of range does the car not stop???

No the car keeps going.

That would be a bit of a flaw in the system

dirty doug said:

But if you are male, you will notice the dashboard telling you in no uncertain terms, that the keys are no longer in range...

Ahhh would be a sensible control addition over the car stopping dead as soon as the keys are further than 20 feet away

dirty doug said:

UPDATE

Well the morrisons fob still works...

Yeah I think the key itself might be past a sell by date....

Good result finding them - at least then you won't have to change the house locks!!

[jayemm89]

I've seen numerous stories of people getting in cars at work, and getting home to realise they'd left the keys in the office or in their jacket somewhere.

I haven't ever owned a car with keyless entry but I've driven a few and they always worried me - because my keys sit about 8 ft from where one of my cars is parked, so in theory someone could just walk down my drive, open the car, start it and drive away - all without having to break in!

[dirty doug]

jayemm89 said:

I've seen numerous stories of people getting in cars at work, and getting home to realise they'd left the keys in the office or in their jacket somewhere.

I haven't ever owned a car with keyless entry but I've driven a few and they always worried me - because my keys sit about 8 ft from where one of my cars is parked, so in theory someone could just walk down my drive, open the car, start it and drive away - all without having to break in!

The Nissan system seems to be very precise at least. You can unlock the door with fob 1 metre away but not 2 metres.
£260 for new fob & key
Dopey wife is very sorry & is now forgiven because she is normally quite good

[Konan]

jayemm89 said:

I've seen numerous stories of people getting in cars at work, and getting home to realise they'd left the keys in the office or in their jacket somewhere.

I haven't ever owned a car with keyless entry but I've driven a few and they always worried me - because my keys sit about 8 ft from where one of my cars is parked, so in theory someone could just walk down my drive, open the car, start it and drive away - all without having to break in!

The Toyota appears to know if the keys are inside the cabin or outside. It won't start with them outside of the car. It won't stop if you take them out, but it beeps a lot and illuminates a key warning.

This also prevents you from locking them in the car.

[spicjt]

This reminds me of a similar incident!

I had a Mazda 6 at the time, keyless entry - wife has a mini cooper. Our driveway at the time was quite tight and the wife didn't like reversing up it.

She had been shopping and I was travelling back from work, we met at Alysham heading back to East Runton and swapped cars so I could park and unload the car, for the record it was getting late and raining so Le Man style car swap.

She drove off with me behind, and as I hadn't drove the mini for a while decided to have some fun. Overtook the wife in the Mazda who began flashing madly at me, as with all men who have a mental age of 16 I just kept going faster with the lights flashing away behind. At one point I was a good 200-300 metres in front.

Anyway I got to Roughton and slowed down where the wife turned up still flashing away. I pulled over and unwound the window where I was totally and utterly abused verbally with the ending "you have the fu**ing keys in your pocket you tt!"

Keyless entry is a great tool (have it on my X-Trail now)- but like most technology things, human error is the weak point!