Building Interference with Cars
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My wife has a Kia Nero EV. Not had it long, but recently had a warning pop up relating to active cruise not working. After switch off and turn on it is all fine again. We have realised that this only happens on school run where we drive past the same metal building and it flicks on at exactly that point. Next door is a local BBC studio.
Do buildings impact or interfere with car systems?
Do buildings impact or interfere with car systems?
When I used to park in the OMNI car park on Edinburgh there was something that regularly stopped my remote key fob working. Sometimes I had to press the key against the window for it to unlock, sometimes I had to use the emergency key, and usually I had to hold it against the steering column for the car to detect it and start. Never happened anywhere else.
E63eeeeee... said:
When I used to park in the OMNI car park on Edinburgh there was something that regularly stopped my remote key fob working. Sometimes I had to press the key against the window for it to unlock, sometimes I had to use the emergency key, and usually I had to hold it against the steering column for the car to detect it and start. Never happened anywhere else.
That is quite an impact!Ferrari 355s with Bosch Motronic 5.2 immobilised by phone masts.
https://youtu.be/F89SBHmw4KM?si=t8W4RDmMIsE66OEB
https://youtu.be/F89SBHmw4KM?si=t8W4RDmMIsE66OEB
I would suggest it is more likely to be what activity is occuring in the building rather than the building itself.
Active Cruise just uses a fancy radar that has a receiver, it isn't difficult to degrade the receiver performance enough that the system cannot work properly hence switching off.
I suspect what you are experiencing is the effect of the receiver being built down to a price so its immunity isn't 150%, just 100%.
Car fobs not working in certain locations is a well known issue since they first came to market and is just crap receivers getting overwhelmed by large unwanted signals so they can't receive the one they are expecting. They could build receivers that are immune to the problem but that costs more, for the number of times it happens it just isn't worth it.
Active Cruise just uses a fancy radar that has a receiver, it isn't difficult to degrade the receiver performance enough that the system cannot work properly hence switching off.
I suspect what you are experiencing is the effect of the receiver being built down to a price so its immunity isn't 150%, just 100%.
Car fobs not working in certain locations is a well known issue since they first came to market and is just crap receivers getting overwhelmed by large unwanted signals so they can't receive the one they are expecting. They could build receivers that are immune to the problem but that costs more, for the number of times it happens it just isn't worth it.
When I had my Q7 I used to get a suspension error warning come up every time I drove past a substation at the side of the A1 - it never happened anywhere else
I was commuting to Essex from Newcastle weekly in it and it would be fine for hundreds of miles without issue but as soon as I pass the substation "DING DING DING" ... in the other direction, leave home, pass the substation "DING DING DING", pull over reset the code, continue without issue until the same point later in the week when heading home!
Infuriating!
I was commuting to Essex from Newcastle weekly in it and it would be fine for hundreds of miles without issue but as soon as I pass the substation "DING DING DING" ... in the other direction, leave home, pass the substation "DING DING DING", pull over reset the code, continue without issue until the same point later in the week when heading home!
Infuriating!
E63eeeeee... said:
When I used to park in the OMNI car park on Edinburgh there was something that regularly stopped my remote key fob working. Sometimes I had to press the key against the window for it to unlock, sometimes I had to use the emergency key, and usually I had to hold it against the steering column for the car to detect it and start. Never happened anywhere else.
Back in the 90s, if I parked my TVR at HMS Warrior in Northwood the fob would lock the car but it couldn't be unlocked so you had to clamber in via the rear screen and remove the stereo cradle all while be mocked by the gathered crowd. In recent years, the satnav in both my BMWs and the later Audi have a tendency to go very weird in Cheltenham, approaching GCHQ, either lagging strongly or placing you in a different location. No idea if that is related to GCHQ but it's not an effect I've noticed in other towns although one's paranoia could just be a function of the older TVR experience.
DonkeyApple said:
Back in the 90s, if I parked my TVR at HMS Warrior in Northwood the fob would lock the car but it couldn't be unlocked so you had to clamber in via the rear screen and remove the stereo cradle all while be mocked by the gathered crowd.
In recent years, the satnav in both my BMWs and the later Audi have a tendency to go very weird in Cheltenham, approaching GCHQ, either lagging strongly or placing you in a different location. No idea if that is related to GCHQ but it's not an effect I've noticed in other towns although one's paranoia could just be a function of the older TVR experience.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if GPS didn’t work perfectly in that location.In recent years, the satnav in both my BMWs and the later Audi have a tendency to go very weird in Cheltenham, approaching GCHQ, either lagging strongly or placing you in a different location. No idea if that is related to GCHQ but it's not an effect I've noticed in other towns although one's paranoia could just be a function of the older TVR experience.
CanAm said:
DonkeyApple said:
Back in the 90s, if I parked my TVR at HMS Warrior in Northwood the fob would lock the car but it couldn't be unlocked so you had to clamber in via the rear screen and remove the stereo cradle all while be mocked by the gathered crowd.
In recent years, the satnav in both my BMWs and the later Audi have a tendency to go very weird in Cheltenham, approaching GCHQ, either lagging strongly or placing you in a different location. No idea if that is related to GCHQ but it's not an effect I've noticed in other towns although one's paranoia could just be a function of the older TVR experience.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if GPS didn’t work perfectly in that location.In recent years, the satnav in both my BMWs and the later Audi have a tendency to go very weird in Cheltenham, approaching GCHQ, either lagging strongly or placing you in a different location. No idea if that is related to GCHQ but it's not an effect I've noticed in other towns although one's paranoia could just be a function of the older TVR experience.
A place I used to work had quite a few GPS repeaters operating for various things in the building, this caused so much local interference with GPS it created a dog leg on the main road outside our building in google maps despite the road being straight.
Would have been quite bumpy driving over the allotments before getting back on the main road if someone followed the route.
Was a bit of daily joke with the lunchtime runners
Would have been quite bumpy driving over the allotments before getting back on the main road if someone followed the route.
Was a bit of daily joke with the lunchtime runners
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