Help people Please!!!

I have recently found out that We have locked out main Galaxy Key fob in the car (At home). I am at work with the spare on my key bunch.  

Is there a way for my partner to get into the car without the spare fob??

We have a Galaxy Titanium 2017??

Do you have the FordPass app?

No !! will that help?

4 minutes ago, scurotto said:

No !! will that help?

There was a feature on it to remotely unlock the car using your phone over wifi.  However I don't know whether that feature is present on a 2017 Galaxy.

Really the only other option is to break a window or use a wedge in the top of the door and find something thin to push the unlock button or pull the door handle inside.  The alarm will go off while trying that.  Is there any way you could get home or have a third party drive over to you and take the key back home?

Thank you for your help, I will get my partner to try the app, in not she will have to wait till I get home.

It is not ideal but saves breaking into the car

 

Thank you once again

26 minutes ago, scurotto said:

Help people Please!!!

I have recently found out that We have locked out main Galaxy Key fob in the car (At home). I am at work with the spare on my key bunch.  

Is there a way for my partner to get into the car without the spare fob??

We have a Galaxy Titanium 2017??

heard b4,both mobile phones on press your remote key that will send signal to the car to open never tried but worth a try let us know if it works,,good luck,

Does a key fob in a locked car get disabled ?

I read this somewhere, but not too sure to what it applies.

Only a suggestion, do you have any type of breakdown cover? If so, a call may summon help to get into car without needing to shatter any glass...

Do you have the ford app? I have a remote open/lock function.

3 minutes ago, Andyr55 said:

Do you have the ford app? I have a remote open/lock function.

Is that different to the, 'FordPass' app already mentioned?

Just now, StephenFord said:

Is that different to the, 'FordPass' app already mentioned?

No.

The answer is to use two mobile phones. Make a call between them and place one phone on the window of the car and the hold the keyfob close to the other phone and press unlock. It was once demonstrated on TopGear many moons ago. It's a similar way to car thieves pick up the signal from your keyfob and relay it to the car to steal it.

1 minute ago, unofix said:

The answer is to use two mobile phones. Make a call between them and place one phone on the window of the car and the hold the keyfob close to the other phone and press unlock. It was once demonstrated on TopGear many moons ago. It's a similar way to car thieves pick up the signal from your keyfob and relay it to the car to steal it.

I'd never heard of this before.  Are keyfob radio waves 'audible' enough to be reproduced by the phone speaker?

7 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Are keyfob radio waves 'audible' enough to be reproduced by the phone speaker?

Audible, no, well at least not to humans 🤣

Does it work, to be honest I've never tried it but I must give it a try at the weekend when my daughters here. I'll try and remember and post back my findings.

 

14 minutes ago, unofix said:

The answer is to use two mobile phones...

I don't think that would ever work. You'd need to be in control of TWO mobile phones, simultaneously where both of them actually received a mobile signal! I don't think anyone has ever achieved that status of 2 phones working at the same time  😁

5 minutes ago, unofix said:

Audible, no, well at least not to humans 🤣

Does it work, to be honest I've never tried it but I must give it a try at the weekend when my daughters here. I'll try and remember and post back my findings.

That's what I was thinking...why would they build a phone speaker to cover waves that aren't audible?  Nowadays everything seems to be built as cheaply as possible, making components that only just cover the necessary areas.  Though I suppose it could just be a 'consequence' of manufacture rather than a design choice.

I am genuinely interested to know whether it works.  Particularly as I had this situation myself a while ago, and had to wake a relative to bring me the spare key from home!

2 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

I am genuinely interested to know whether it works. 

To be honest, so am I now 👍

I will try my best to remember and try it out at the weekend and let you know. Please remind me on Monday if I've failed to report back with the answer.

Not long after acquiring this (keyless entry) Fiesta I accidentally locked the key inside the car. I was able to lock the car on the handle pushbutton.  As  I had already read in the manual that a key locked inside becomes immobilised, I was horrified.   Very luckily, I was at home and could get to the spare key to open the car.  It bought home to me the danger of the keyless entry system where the key can fall out of your pocket in the car (as it did with me) and you can so easily  lock yourself out. 

With the key in an ignition switch, you have to have it in your hand to switch off and leave the car making the above scenario impossible.

Now I'm aware, I have the key attached to my belt when going out.

Did you try opening the door or just immediately get the spare?

That scenario shouldn't be possible.  The interior sensors will detect a key inside the car and shouldn't allow it to lock unless there is also another key in close proximity outside the car.

That is a very poor setup if that's the way it's done on a Mk7!

It's some years ago now but I'm pretty sure I tried opening the car immediately and I couldn't which tallied with the manual statement that the key inside was 'immobile' therefore the system couldn't detect it.  Yes, I agree it is a poor arrangement and I hope Ford have now modified it.  The other day when I couldn't open on the door pushbutton, by chance, a little later I got out of the car with the engine running (bad practice I know) a message 'Key outside car' came up so it could detect the key ok (otherwise I wouldn't have been able to start it, I assume).

4 minutes ago, Magenta said:

It's some years ago now but I'm pretty sure I tried opening the car immediately and I couldn't which tallied with the manual statement that the key inside was 'immobile' therefore the system couldn't detect it.  Yes, I agree it is a poor arrangement and I hope Ford have now modified it.  The other day when I couldn't open on the door pushbutton, by chance, a little later I got out of the car with the engine running (bad practice I know) a message 'Key outside car' came up so it could detect the key ok (otherwise I wouldn't have been able to start it, I assume).

Oh, that may have been another feature!  If you press the button twice it deadlocks.  I'm not sure how many seconds it allows in between those presses.  (Or if that feature is included on Mk7)

Yes, push button start won't work unless it can detect the key inside the car, so that part is definitely working.