Keyless Entry Remote – Your Access to Passive Protection

Remote keyless entry system is an electronic system that is designed to permit or deny access to a car, truck or other vehicle from a distance (i.e. remote). When we are talking about vehicles, the RKS (Remote Keyless System) performs the normal functions one uses a standard key but without physical contact. So you can unlock or lock your car from your bedroom or front porch.

The first remote keyless system first came out of Detroit in the early 1980′s on American Motors vehicles, but it became widely accepted and was made popular by several General Motors models in 1989 including the Buick Regal, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and the Pontiac Grand Prix.

The key fob, the top portion of your vehicle’s physical key, has been programmed to act like an electronic key. These keys have been called a smart key because it does so much more than just unlocking the door or starting the engine. An intelligent key can arm and disarm the car’s alarm systems as well as lock and unlock the doors with the push on a single button rather than two separate buttons. That way, you don’t need to remember to arm the vehicle’s security system, it is done automatically for you at the same time you are locking your car.

Speaking of the extra security that is built into the keyless entry remote systems, the smart key can have the corresponding chip which enables or disables the ignition system. So if a thief breaks into your car, he cannot drive off with it until he has your key. If perchance, the thief manages to hot wire your car, the engine will not ‘go’ or start without the corresponding chip in the key fob. The chip itself is enabled with specific encryptions to make it difficult if not impossible for some thief to intercept the signal since the fob chip works with your vehicle by interacting by broadcasting radio waves.

Now that the technology is so well established, if you lose your key or break it, you do not have to buy a replacement from the manufacture. There are many different sources on the web for replacement keys. They will not be inexpensive but they will be below the original manufacturer price.