How close do u have to be for your remote to work. I ususaly have to be about 20 feet away for the remote to work. it seems almost pointless to have a panic button when it doesnt work from a far distance. im thinkin maybe the battery is dead. but i just got the car in july.

 

mine works well over 200 feet I'd say.... maybe you need a new Battery

 

mine only works from 20 feet also. Is something wrong with my remote?

 

well i know panic and the trunk button are timed, so u hafta wait a few seconds so u dont hit it by accident. but i mean the locking thing is a bit screwy some times.

 

Mine only works from about 20 feet or so also. I've only had my car for about 6 or 7 weeks so the battery should still be good although I guess anything is possible. I'll be interested to hear the experience of others.

 

20' here.

200' is insane. You'd need more than a coin battery to pull that off.

 

I have noticed that mine doesn't seem to work as well my RSX's did... I'd guess probably around 20-30 ft as well, where my RSX seemed to easily be 50..

 

Remote distance has been deteriorating since 6 months I got the car

 

I get around 40 feet with mine.

This is something that used to come up in the car alarm business. But think about it for a minute... when you press the Panic button, what happens? Your car honks and flashes for attention. If your Panic button works from far away, it doesn't actually help, because it's attracting all the attention to the wrong place!

I got my GF at the time a Clifford alarm, and the ONLY reason I wanted her crappy car to have an alarm was for the Panic button... at the moment that she entered or exited her car in the SDSU parking structure. The rest of the time she was on her own.


Could be... but it's also possible that you have RF interference in your neighborhood. Do other alarms work at long range in your neighborhood?

 

point the remote facing up to your chin and hold it about 2 inches away...you will get a whole lot more range...wierd but it works! I know how it works but very long to explain.

 

A friend told me that a few years ago and it works fairly well...

 

Well, you have to remember, that when you buy the car, it doesn't mean that the battery hasn't just been sitting in that remote since the car has been built.
Try a new battery, if then it fails, No, dont try the chin thing, thats looks wierd, and shouldn't be the way to get it done. Ask the local dealer to check it out.

 

well i walk out of work and i park at the END of the lot.....probably pass 20-25 cars on my walk, and there is a NO PARKING zone thats about 20 feet wide after the first 5 cars.....i always unlock my car when i get to the no parking zone.....so if i pass 20 cars...each space being 7-8 feet thats like 140-160 feet and i can see my break lights blinking.

I do hold the remote at Eye level when i do this, making sure to aim it right at my car.

 

my friend sayz the keyfobs have a flat based aerial antenna, so jus hold the key facing up and high in the air and it should give u better range...

 

My experience is that my remote works from alot further in an indoor parking garage. My theory, based on nothing whatsoever except the logic I can come to, is that outdoors, if I click the remote, the signal has more room to "dissipate", meaning it just kind of fades up into the sky? Indoors, if I click it, it maybe just bounces off the ceiling and floor and therefore goes farther without weakening? Any truth to this theory?

 

mmmmm, well i just went outside to clean the stuff outa my trunk cuz it started to rain while i was detailing (not good). so yeah the remote works across the lot, i think its werid. it acts differently how i press the button, i guess its something to get used to.

 

my remote works from the next state, aboot 200 miles or so.

 

what battery you using? plutonium? er .... back to future style

 

mine does not work from more than 20 or so feet....trunk or doors, but I will try the chin thing.

 

Mine works about 200' away in an uninterrupted straight line, maybe 20-40' with cars in the way. I've had the car for > 1 year and have always been impressed with this. When I took the train to my old job, I could roll down the windows as it was pulling into the elevated station!

 

yes the elevated platform seems to make the remote work a helluva alot better, so comming outa school and comming down from my apt i can get the windows open.

 

i use the enterprise remote, captain john luc picard was gracious enuff to send me one. \