Know About Keyless Car Remotes

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If you are bored of that old key of your car, opt for a smart key that comes with many attractive features. These allow you to operate your car with just a few buttons and also keep your vehicle protected. Read on the article to know more about keyless entry remotes.

With the roads getting busier day by day having an ever increasing number of automobiles on road, worries are too exponentially increasing. Be it of the car theft or of being it of losing the significant car keys, having a car nowadays has been coming up with parallel worries also. But being on the verge of 21st century, it is no wrong stating the fact that there lies a technical solution to every of the existing worry. In this case, it is nothing but the keyless vehicle remotes!

What is it?

Speaking of the new technology in the town, the keyless vehicle remotes operates on the keyless entry mechanism that allows to lock or unlock your car with just a button pressed as per the user's wish. In this system, there are remotes facilitating various buttons among which the primary purpose served is by the lock / unlock facility. Technically speaking, ...
... the keyless car remotes employs an electronic locking system that enables the locking and hence unlocking of the car with just a button pressed from the keypad on the remotes.

Historical background!

It was the Renault Fuego that first marked the appearance of the keyless remotes in the automobile sector in 1982. However from the later part of 1983, various US based companies underwent alliance with the Renault to feature the keyless remote facility in their cars.

Technical issues

The keyless remotes carries keypads on them with buttons facilitating locking / unlocking the car doors, ignition being switched on or off, buttons for opening the fuel pump cap etc. automatically. The keyless remote carries a radio transmitter that has a range of few metres varying as per the user choice and a receiver unit placed firmly in the car interior. Generally most of the Remote Keyless Systems (RKS) works a specific frequency of 315 MHz to 422.92 MHz varying from places to places based on the region on which the car is used. Normally, the remotes carry a range of 20m within which the dedicated buttons when pressed performs their functions. However when speaking of the range, it may be well mentioned that the range does not play collinear with various obstacles in between the user and the car.

Benefits

One of the greatest advantages of using the keyless remotes is that it completely eliminates the trouble issues that one has to face when using a keyed entry to a car. Besides this keyless remotes provides other facilities too like opening a window, or locking the car with all the windows automatically closed, roof being shifted as per wish etc. but speaking of the cons, each keyless remotes carry their unique personal identity code that differs them keyless car remotes from others. So if you are prone to losing your remotes too, it is better to keep a backup at hand. Besides new or duplicate keyless car remotes may also be made from your nearest dealer point or from a locksmith but keeping it in mind that these program based remotes cannot be copied unless its hardware is disturbed. So stay and keep your car safe! Happy driving!

The author of this article is associated with Auto Transponder, a renowned seller of keyless entry remote. They also offer car key replacement to the people at attractive prices.